According to the results of the third edition of the Permanent Population and Housing Census, published this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), the decline was 206,000 80 people and mainly affected the center and the north of the country, with 0.5 and 0, respectively .4 percent.
The survey, which ran to December 31, 2021, also showed a marked increase in aging in this European nation, with 5.4 older people for every child, a proportion that 50 years ago was just 1.1, with a median age, which has gone from 43 to 46 years in just one decade.
The aging index, the analysis says, has risen significantly and continues to grow as it rose from 33.5 percent in 1951 to 187.6 percentage points in 2021.
There is a decrease in foreigners in the country as there are currently five million 30,716 registered, a decrease of 141,178 compared to 2020, and the calculated proportion was 8.5 foreigners per 100 people interviewed.
The number of women exceeds that of men by one million 392,000 221 people, which is why women currently make up 51.2 percent of the Italian population
However, it could be specified that between 2011 and 2021 the number of illiterates halved from 1.1 to 0.5 percent of the population, and the number of academics rose from 11.2 to 15.0 percent, as did the number of people with a doctorate in research rose from 0.3 to 0.5 percent, the survey shows.
Until 2011, the general census in Italy was carried out every ten years involving all families at the national level, but since 2018 this method has been replaced by annual studies conducted through family sample surveys using advanced statistical and organizational techniques.
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