The decline in Italy's birth rate has continued this year with the number of newborns set to hit a new record low, Francesco ...

People will now think 20 times before having a baby." Their difficulty, felt across this country, is crippling Italy's birth rate, now at the lowest since its unification in 1861. It's declined ...

In 2023, with every woman having 1.2 babies on average, Italy was among the countries with the lowest fertility rate in the world. During the same year, the birth rate amounted to 6.4 children ...

But an €800 payment per couple per birth, launched in 2015, does not appear to have led to significant changes: Italy still has one of the lowest fertility rates in the EU, with 1.3 children per ...

Elon Musk claimed on Saturday that advertisers were returning to X (formerly Twitter) after an exodus, at a Rome meeting where he also warned Italy’s low birth rate could put off investors.