(ANSA) - ROME, 07 APR - Never so many empty cradles.
In 2022 the birth rate in our country reached an all-time low.
And for the first time since the unification of Italy, births fell below the threshold of 400,000, stopping at 393,000.
While mortality continued to remain high: deaths were 713 thousand, 320 thousand more than births.
With the result that every 1000 inhabitants there were 7 newborns and 12 deaths.
The new negative record for births is signaled by the latest Istat report on demographic indicators, which photographs a country in which the resident population continues to decrease, due to an excess of deaths over births, and to age.
And in which internal and foreign migratory movements have returned to pre-pandemic levels, with more than 55 thousand people who have left the South to move mainly to the Northern regions.
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