by In Trieste
Trieste’s population is shrinking amid lower fertility rates and rising emigration, reports ANSA.
Trieste’s population continued to decline in 2020, shrinking for the fifth year in a row, the annual report from the Italian National Institute of Statistics shows. As of January 2020, there were a little less than 200,000 inhabitants in the city.
More than 31,000 Triestini chose to move to a new country in recent years, according to a report presented by association Tryeste.
The population trend has also been amplified by the effects of the covid-19 pandemic said ISTAT.
The rest of Italy is not doing so great either. Italy’s population had risen virtually every year since world war one, hitting a peak of 60.8 million in 2015, but it has since been in decline, reports Reuters.
The number of marriages celebrated in Italy in 2020 shrunk by almost half, with 96,687 weddings taking place: 47.5 per cent less than in 2019.
