{"id":23255,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/national-demographic-balance-year-2017\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:49:49","slug":"national-demographic-balance-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/national-demographic-balance-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"National demographic balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of December 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2017 Italy had 60,483,973 inhabitants, more than 5 million of which had foreign citizenship: 8.5% at national level(10.7 % in Central-northern regions, 4.2% in the South and Islands area).<\/p>\n<p>The decrease in the number of inhabitants is going on: the overall balance shows an important drop (-105,472 units). The reduction applies to people with Italian citizenship: -202,884 residents, while the foreign population increases slightly, +97,412. Both male and female component of foreign population increase (respectively +67,593 and + 29,819 units).<\/p>\n<p>The natural population change (births minus deaths) is negative of almost -200 thousand units. As the balance is positive for foreign nationals (almost +61 thousand units), for the Italian ones the decline is even more relevant (-251,537 units).<\/p>\n<p>The decrease in the number of births started in 2008 and it is still going on. In 2017 children born were less than half a million, just over 67,933 of which were foreign (14.8% of the total). Compared to 2016, there was an overall reduction of 15,287 units (1,446 for the foreigners).<\/p>\n<p>Deaths are 649,061 (33,800 more than in 2016), of which 7,306 of foreigners (+779 than in 2016).<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 the international migratory flows to\/from Italy determined a positive balance of 188,330 units (+44,572 compared to previous year).<\/p>\n<p>Registrations from abroad increase: 343,440 (+14.2% over 2016), \u00a087.7% of them involves a foreign citizen. On the other hand, cancellations for emigration decrease (-1.9%): for Italian nationals (by birth and by naturalization) they remain unchanged (+114,559 units) compared to the previous year; for foreigners they decrease to 40,551 (-4,7%).<\/p>\n<p>The attractiveness of the northern and central regions to which are addressed most migration flows (both internal and from foreign countries) is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 there were 146,605 new Italian citizens, 50.9% of them are women.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy reside foreigners of about 200 different nationalities. Over 50% of foreign residents (more than 2.6 million individuals) are nationals of a European country. The most represented nationality is the Romanian one (23.1%), followed by the Albanian one (8.6%), and the Moroccan one (8.1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of December 31st, 2017 Italy had 60,483,973 inhabitants, more than 5 million of which had foreign citizenship: 8.5% at national level(10.7 % in Central-northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3409,3138,3203,3579,3237,3177,3114,3171,2969],"regione":[],"tema":[4040],"class_list":["post-23255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-residence-changes","tag-demographic-balance","tag-demography","tag-foreign-persons","tag-foreigners","tag-municipalities","tag-population-register","tag-resident-population","tag-report","tema-population-and-households"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20180613","descrizioneperiodo":"Year 2017","titolobreve":"National demographic balance","news":"In 2017 the decrease of population was going on: as of December 31st, Italy had 60,483,973 inhabitants","news_rss":"As of December 31st, 2017 Italy had 60,483,973 inhabitants, more than 5 million of which had foreign citizenship: 8.5% at national level; the decrease in the number of inhabitants is going on","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3409,"label":"changes of residence","slug":"residence-changes"},{"id":3138,"label":"demographic balance","slug":"demographic-balance"},{"id":3203,"label":"demography","slug":"demography"},{"id":3579,"label":"foreign persons","slug":"foreign-persons"},{"id":3237,"label":"foreigners","slug":"foreigners"},{"id":3177,"label":"municipalities","slug":"municipalities"},{"id":3114,"label":"population register","slug":"population-register"},{"id":3171,"label":"resident population","slug":"resident-population"},{"id":2969,"label":"statistics report","slug":"report"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=23255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}