Culture Italy's population stops shrinking after 12 years, thanks to migration - Bee numbers stabilized by wasps

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By Valentina Consiglio
March 31, 20265:38 AM CDT
Updated March 31, 2026

Summary

• Resident population held steady at around 59 million
• Net immigration at 296,000 last year
• Without migrants, population would have shrunk by 297,000
• Fertility rate down to 1.14 children per woman

ROME, March 31 (Reuters) - Italy's population has stabilised after 12 ‌years of decline, with immigration almost entirely offsetting a shrinking number of births, while life expectancy continues to rise, national statistics agency ISTAT said on Tuesday.

Preliminary data showed the resident population stood at 58.94 million on January 1 this year, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, ISTAT said in its annual ⁠demographic report.

"Italy remains a country where only very positive net migration can offset a largely negative natural change and where the population continues to age," the statistics bureau said.

Without a sustained inflows of migrants the population will resume shrinking, intensifying long‑term pressures on the labour market and public finances, it added.
The influx of immigrants has taken place under the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has taken a tough line on undocumented migrants while also increasing work visas for non-EU citizens.

BIRTHS DROP TO A ‌NEW RECORD ⁠LOW​

Births dropped to 355,000 in 2025, down 3.9% from the previous year to a new record low since the country's unification in 1861, while deaths held broadly steady at 652,000, yielding a negative balance of close to 300,000 people.

Fertility fell further to an average of ⁠1.14 children per woman, among the lowest levels in Europe and well below the replacement rate of 2.1, reflecting delayed parenthood and a shrinking pool of potential parents.

Net immigration stood at ⁠296,000, with arrivals from abroad reaching 440,000, while emigration fell sharply to 144,000, the lowest level recorded in the past decade.
The foreign resident population rose by 188,000 ⁠to 5.56 million.

Life expectancy increased further after the COVID-19 pandemic years, reaching 81.7 years for men and 85.7 for women, placing Italy among the longest-living countries in the European Union, ISTAT said.

Reporting by Valentina Consiglio, editing by Gavin Jones

 

[Audit]

No matter where you go in the West it's Jeets, Jeets, Jeets. They will gain control just by out breeding the locals and inside 10 generation they're the majority and your country isn't yours anymore.

That's the weirdest thing. They're not outbreeding the locals. There is just an infinite supply of them to import. Basically 1-for-1, browns in the West were imported. In most instances, their birth rates are below replacement.

 

[Irreedemable Ret. 2]

the amount of money people have has nothing to do with whether they have kids or not. I used examples of reproduction in impoverished times from the past to demonstrate what I meant.

Except this is demonstrably false. Compare the gulf shitholes to the African shitholes for you to see the pattern.

 

[AnotherPleb]

One of the things that Americans fail to appreciate is that there's a price for the (very) theoretical advantages of Europe. Europoor isn't exactly a meme, Euros are poor as dirt compared to the baseline American. German median income is what, 60k dollars? Cut it by one third or one half because everything is taxed to shit. French? 40k. Italy? 25k.

You don't exactly plan for children when you need to be 30+ to have a salary that covers living expenses, a 20+ years mortgage to get a dingy apartment, you have no hope for improvement and your welfare is being sucked dry by everything with a pulse. Most Euros aren't hedonists, they're desperate.

The only thing stopping Euros from being suicidal or revolutionary is the fact that their governments lie to them about how much money Americans have. When Europoors hear about our healthcare costs they always think about it with the kind of money they have.

It’s better that a country shrink in population rather than grow due to third world immigration.

But Line Must Go Up.

 

[Would]

Do they really think anyone still believes this lie, that gorillions of welfare dependents, criminals, and fraudsters somehow help the country's financial situation, instead of simply adding more to the burden on taxpaying citizens?

It’s not technically a lie, as they do need the niggers to pay into the ponzi scheme that is social security.
They know that if they say “well, the jig is up. You will not benefit from the system you paid into” that it will be the end of whatever party is in power. Boomers never have and never will enact self-sacrifice for the greater good.

 

[AnotherPleb]

It’s not technically a lie, as they do need the niggers to pay into the ponzi scheme that is social security.
They know that if they say “well, the jig is up. You will not benefit from the system you paid into” that it will be the end of whatever party is in power. Boomers never have and never will enact self-sacrifice for the greater good.

The problem is that the niggers work off the books while they pull from all dem programs.

 

[JohnnyG]

It’s not technically a lie, as they do need the niggers to pay into the ponzi scheme that is social security.

But it's not even like there's some short-term benefit that will be paid for later. They're an absolute deadweight loss the day they show up, which only gets worse over time.

Their aging relatives are a drain, as are their kids that immediately receive tens of thousands in benefits via schooling, meals, insurance, tax credits, etc. And the "workers" themselves are net tax recipients, if they even bother to file or claim their income (many steal tax IDs, claiming tax credits on behalf of citizens, bleeding taxpayers even faster).

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Looking up Italy's growth figures, it seems they have been completely stagnant (except two Covid years, which had a massive drop and a rebound). So they are turning Rome, Florence, Naples, Cinquecento and Quattrocento into Mogadishu for nothing. Not even the line goes up.

Also a regular reminder that Giorgia Meloni was talked up as this terrifying direct successor to Mussolini who'd be machinegunning crying boat migrants into the sea, and she ended up making the problem even worse.

Well more like the Italian court system is literally a government by itself

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

tbh euros settling down and having plus-one kids might be closer than people think

LMAO no

If Euros have kids they usually absolutely max out at 2.

1 is far more realistic

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Just like Pope Francis wanted.

https://www.chicagocatholic.com/vatican/-/article/2023/12/14/pope-tells-government-officials-migrants-must-be-received-integrated

Migrants, he said, “are faces, and not numbers; people who cannot simply be categorized but should be embraced; brothers and sisters who need to be removed from the tentacles of criminal organizations capable of mercilessly exploiting their misfortunes.” The pope highlighted the “lagers,” or camps, that exist in northern Africa where migrants seeking passage into Europe are “treated like slaves, tortured, even killed.”

Meeting at the Vatican Dec. 11 with “prefects” of the Italian government — regional government officials who enact federal laws — the pope said it is up to them to offer migrants a welcome “based on integration” and include them in the fabric of their local societies.

“Migrants must be received, accompanied, promoted and integrated,” he said. “If there is not this path to integration, there is danger.” Pope Francis noted that when properly included, migrants contribute to the society that welcomes them. And, he noted, given Italy’s falling birthrate, the country needs newcomers. Just as Italians have a responsibility to have and raise children, he said, they must also “receive migrants like sons and daughters.”

 

[The Connected Nose]

Italy's population has stabilised after 12 ‌years of decline, with immigration almost entirely offsetting a shrinking number of births, while life expectancy continues to rise, national statistics agency ISTAT said on Tuesday.

Translation: The population is still declining because the invaders are...say it with me now...NOT ITALIANS.

With that hard right evil racist fascist Meloni in charge I bet it's all aryan immigration, after all the news told me she was a racist fascist.

That stupid cunt was on record sucking Israel off and pledging her loyalty to (((them))) weeks before the election even occurred. Anyone who voted for her is an abject retard.

 

[Wigger Rights Advocate]

There's nothing wrong with a decline in population. They would just reach a new equilibrium and naturally adapt to that. Immigration was never needed in the first place.

 

[kestewin]

LMAO no

If Euros have kids they usually absolutely max out at 2.

1 is far more realistic

Alas that's too true. That, couples with years of out-of-wedlock with kids, and those terminal singles are the norm.

 

[Adolf Kitler]

I'm so fucking tired man...