Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newborn lies in a bed at university hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden. Arno Burgi/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa Italy's birth rate ...

In 2025, Italy continues to break records for low birth rates: the previous year, there were only 370,000 births, with a fertility rate of 1.18 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded in the ...

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A baby's birth brought a rare sense of joy and new, renewed attention to a small community nestled in the mountains of central Italy. The population has slowly decreased over decades in the region and ...

Italy’s health minister is proposing doubling a ‘baby bonus’ incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country’s birth rate. “If we carry on as ...

The number of births in Italy fell again last year, with the fertility rate dropping to a record low of 1.18 children per woman, the national statistics agency said Tuesday.