Fertility rate in Italy 2023, by region
In 2023, the Italian region which registered the highest fertility rate was Trentino-South Tyrol, where the average number of children born per female reached 1.42 infants. Over the last years, the fertility rate in Italy has constantly decreased, except for 2021 when a slight increase by 0.01 points was recorded.
Fewer and fewer children born per woman
The average number of children born per female significantly varied from the middle of the twentieth century to present days. In 2017, Italian women were on average a mother of one child, whereas about seven decades earlier, females had on average at least two kids.
The lowest fertility rates worldwide
From the global perspective, Italy was one of the world's twenty countries with the lowest fertility rate in 2023. This figure in Taiwan reached only 1.07 children per woman, placing the country on top of the ranking.
