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Since 1861 in Italy the elderly have gone from 4.2% to 23.8%

2023-02-07T14:14:58.368Z


From the unification of Italy to today, the resident population has increased from 26 million in 1861 (at current borders) to 59 million on 1 January 2022. But from 2014 to today, residents have decreased by over 1.3 million. (HANDLE)


From the unification of Italy to today, the resident population has increased from 26 million in 1861 (at current borders) to 59 million on 1 January 2022. But from 2014 to today, residents have decreased by over 1.3 million.

Elderly people, aged 65 and over, between 1861 and 2022 increased from 4.2% to 23.8% of the population.

In the same period, young people under 15 decreased from 34.2 to 12.7%.

    These are some of the data contained in the new web publishing series, publications accessible to all, with interactive contents and graphics, online insights and downloadable data launched by Istat.

In particular, the series is inaugurated by the publication "Demographic history of Italy from unification to today" (available at the link https://webpub.istat.it/progetto/storia-demografica-italia), which recounts the transformation of the country in the last 160 years through demographic changes: population growth and its ageing, urbanization, emigration abroad and strong areas of the country, replaced today by immigration.

    In particular, the lengthening of life and the contraction of the birth rate have led to an increase in the number of elderly people and a reduction in that of young people.

International migratory flows, after having contrasted the natural growth of the population for over a century, have compensated for the decrease in the last twenty years and contributed to modifying its characteristics.

Finally, the distribution of inhabitants across the territory has also substantially changed, with the development of cities - particularly in the centre-north - and the abandonment of the more disadvantaged areas of the interior: a trend that has evolved in recent decades, with the expansion of metropolitan areas.

    There are 9 million residents in cities with 250,000 inhabitants and over (as of 1 January 2022), up from 751,000 in 1861. But the peak was 11.2 million residents at the 1971 census


    . 1 January 2022 there are 5.1 million, over half from European countries.

Furthermore, between 2012 and 2021, 1.3 million foreign residents acquired Italian citizenship.

There are instead 5.8 million Italians abroad and registered with AIRE, more than half of whom are concentrated in Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, France and Brazil.

    The demographic transformations in the history of Italy, also associated with the profound changes in people's characteristics and behaviors, are presented together with those of France, Germany and Spain, countries historically linked to ours by destinies and paths.

Source: ansa

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