Italy s population has dropped to under 59 million, new statistics show, with the number of elderly people continuing to rise amid a plummeting birth rate.
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Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday. Italy’s dearth of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of last year’s election which saw her become the country’s first woman prime minister.
Italy's population is set to decline by almost a fifth over the next five decades as a result of a steadily falling birthrate, the country's statistics agency ISTAT said on Thursday.