in one year, 15,000 fewer births

Fewer and fewer children are born in Italy. In 2017, there are more than 15,000 fewer births in 2016, less than 45,000 over three years and nearly 120,000 fewer than in 2008. And the forecast for the year are not auspicious of the provisional data for the six months, which already record at least 8,400 compared to the same half of last year. This is the picture taken by the latest ISTAT report "Natality and Fertility" of the resident population. Year 2017, presented today in Rome.

The average number of children per woman continues to decline to 1.32 from 1.46 in 2010. It is estimated that 22% of women aged 40, at the end of their cycle, procreative life, could remain childless. A percentage that doubles from the 11.1% estimated for the generation of their mothers (born in 1950). The decline in births is mainly reflected in the first children: it has decreased by 25% compared to 2008. A new trend that has consolidated in recent years. The number of children born to married couples is drastically reduced (-147,000 in just 9 years), while those born out of wedlock (+29,000 compared to 2008) are increasing. Those born in pairs of both Italian parents (14,000 less than in 2016 and over 121,000 less than in 2008) are falling, but not only. For the first time since 2008, 100,000 births with at least one foreign parent are less than 100,000. The contribution to the birth rate of resident foreign citizens, who have so far bridged the demographic gap, is on the rise. reduce slowly. "As it was expected, the birth rate is even lower.

This phenomenon has lasted for a decade and is due to structural factors. But this should not make us think that it is an irreversible phenomenon and that we can not intervene, "said Vittoria Buratta, director of social statistics of Istat, when the presentation of the data On the day of the ISTAT report, Lorenzo Fontana, Minister of the Family and Persons with Disabilities, announces "a birth code that addresses in a structural and definitive way the question of the demographic rebirth": "The last ISTAT data – explains the minister – confirm the idea matured in our technical badysis, namely that the contrast with the reduction of the birth rate requires a plan of structural interventions and the overcoming of policies inherited from previous governments, which no have not systematically addressed this phenomenon ". Deputy Prime Minister Luigi di Maio also referred to the data, pointing out that the decline in births in Italy "is a drama that has lasted for years" and that it is necessary "to reverse the trend".

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