Italian Population Sees Continued Decline with Regional Variations

Rome: Italy’s resident population fell again last year, Istat said Tuesday, decreasing by 37,000 to 58 million 934,000 units as of January 1, 2025.

According to Ansa News Agency, “2024 shows a demographic dynamic in continuity with that of the recent post-pandemic years: a limited decline in the resident population, the confirmation of a strongly negative natural dynamic, a positive migratory dynamic,” the stats agency stated.

The data were supplied by the president of Istat, Francesco Maria Chelli, in a hearing at the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the economic and social effects deriving from the demographic transition. Chelli noted that the population decline does not affect all areas of the country uniformly. In the North, the population increased by 1.6 per thousand, while the Center and the South recorded negative variations of -0.6 per thousand and -3.8 per thousand, respectively.