The new projections of the country’s demographic future, updated to 2022, return trends that are difficult to dispute, albeit in a framework with some uncertainty. The resident population is decreasing: from 59 million on January 1, 2022 to 58.1 mln in 2030, to 54.4 mln in 2050 to 45.8 mln in 2080.<\/p>\n
The ratio of working-age (15-64 years) to non-working-age individuals (0-14 and 65 years and older) will decrease from about three to two in 2022 to about one to one in 2050.<\/p>\n
Even within a common background of aging, the structural differences between the North and the South of the country are amplified.<\/p>\n
Households are increasing but with a smaller average number of members. Fewer couples with children, more couples without: by 2042 only one in four households will consist of a couple with children; more than one in five will have none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italy tomorrow: a smaller, more heterogeneous population with more differences. The new projections of the country’s demographic future, updated to 2022, return trends that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3292,3201,3203,3116,3222,3579,3512,3282,3177,3812,3171,2969,3446],"regione":[],"tema":[4040],"class_list":["post-28102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-births","tag-deaths","tag-demography","tag-elderly","tag-fertility","tag-foreign-persons","tag-immigrants","tag-migrations","tag-municipalities","tag-population-projections","tag-resident-population","tag-report","tag-young","tema-population-and-households"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20230928","descrizioneperiodo":"Base 1 January 2022","titolobreve":"Population and households projections","news":"Decreasing population: from 59.0 million as of January 1, 2022 to 58.1 million in 2030, to 54.4 million in 2050 and to 45.8 million in 2080","news_rss":"The new projections of the country's demographic future, updated to 2022, return trends that are difficult to dispute, albeit in a framework with some uncertainty. The resident population is decreasing: from 59 million on January 1, 2022 to 58.1 mln in 2030, to 54.4 mln in 2050 to 45.8 mln in 2080.","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3292,"label":"births","slug":"births"},{"id":3201,"label":"deaths","slug":"deaths"},{"id":3203,"label":"demography","slug":"demography"},{"id":3116,"label":"elderly","slug":"elderly"},{"id":3222,"label":"fertility","slug":"fertility"},{"id":3579,"label":"foreign persons","slug":"foreign-persons"},{"id":3512,"label":"immigrants","slug":"immigrants"},{"id":3282,"label":"migrations","slug":"migrations"},{"id":3177,"label":"municipalities","slug":"municipalities"},{"id":3812,"label":"population projections","slug":"population-projections"},{"id":3171,"label":"resident population","slug":"resident-population"},{"id":2969,"label":"statistics report","slug":"report"},{"id":3446,"label":"young","slug":"young"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28102"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=28102"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=28102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}