In 2021, the balance of foreigners residing in Italy decreased compared to 2019 (-15.4%).
This is what emerges from the Istat data.
Among foreigners, births decreased (-4.8% on 2020) and deaths increased (+8.6%), a trend that still seems to be affected by the pandemic impact.
Immigration of foreign citizens, on the other hand, has recovered (+27% on 2020), after the conspicuous drop due to the closure of the borders due to Covid, but they have not recovered the pre-pandemic levels.
From the Istat report "Resident foreigners and new citizens: demographic characteristics and territorial distribution - year 2021" it appears that foreigners reside mainly in northern Italy (59% of the total), a division in which Italian citizens are also concentrated by acquisition , equal to 66.5%.