Italy has long had one of the lowest birth rates in the EU, and the country is ageing at a much faster rate than other member states, and it appears to be getting worse. According to government ...

The birth of a baby girl in Pagliara dei Marsi after nearly 30 years has united the tiny Italian village while highlighting Italy’s deepening birth-rate crisis and shrinking public services.

For 30 years, silence had settled over the Italian village – no cries of newborns, and year after year passed without a ...

Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's death of babies is considered a ...

FILE PHOTO: World clocks 8 billion as Italy faces continued population decline ROME (Reuters) - Births in Italy dropped to a record low in 2023, the 15th consecutive annual decline, national ...

ROME — Italy’s national statistics institute is predicting that the country will see a significant decline in births in the years immediately following the coronavirus pandemic. In a July report, ...

People who didn’t even know Pagliara dei Marsi existed have come, only because they had heard about Lara,” said the baby’s mother ...

Rome — Pope Francis warned Friday that Europe is mired in a "demographic winter" and encouraged Italians to have more children. The leader of the Catholic Church urged Italian politicians to take ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of babies born in Italy dropped 2.6 per cent last year, while the number of Italians leaving the ...

Italy's national statistics institute is predicting that the country will see a significant decline in births in the years immediately following the coronavirus pandemic. In a July report, Istat said ...