Italia, in 30 anni i giovani sono scesi dal 32% al 22% della popolazione – Tra le grandi città, Bologna è l’unica dove crescono i giovani (+13%), Cagliari la peggiore (-45%)

Istat (National Institute of Statistics of Italy) has published a new report on “Young people in big italian cities” [here](https://www.istat.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Focus-Citta-Metropolitane-Istruzione-Giovani.pdf). Only in Italian, sorry.

Among the various data, it emerges that young people (0-24 years) in Italy have dropped from 32% of the population in 1993 to only 22% in 2023.
In particular, among Italian big cities, the only one where young people have increased is Bologna with +13%, the others are all decreasing: Florence -5%, Milan -9%, Rome -14%, Turin and Venice -22%, Genoa -24%, then the large cities of the south all -30/40%, up to Cagliari with -45%. Average -24.5%.

The report then focus into the educational theme of young people.
My correlation (maybe wrong): the only outlier Bologna is also 1st for places in educational services 0-2 years (49% of resident children), 1st for municipal spend per capita for educational services 0-2 years (4,600 euros per year per child), 1st for use of full-time in nursery schools (97%).
If it is not really correlated (the data quite closely follows the trends above) let’s say that, well, it probably helps. Then of course it is not just that.

Thanks, Tante Ceccarelli!

What’s the deal ? Lower birthrate ? Young people moving out of big cities ?

It will be interesting to see if there are countries that manage to crack the fertility problem with policies. And how.

Who would have thought that enacting progressive policies would attract young people and make them want to establish a life and families?

Are these continuous posts about the imploding population done by coming from Russian trolls, to mask their own imploding population?