In 20 years the population residing in Cagliari has dropped by almost 9%, while in the same period the residents in the hinterland Municipalities have also increased by up to 16%.
This is what emerges from the latest Istat report on Italian metropolitan cities. Cagliari brings together a total of 17 Municipalities, for an area of 1,249 square kilometers and over 421,000 inhabitants.
The data (which refer to the period 2001-2021) fixes the number of residents in the city of Cagliari at 149,092 , a number which, as mentioned , is decreasing, precisely by 8.93% , while 209,147 people live in the centers of the so-called first belt adjacent to the capital ( +6.74%) . In the Municipalities of the second belt, on the other hand, there are over 50,000 residents and it is here that the highest variation has been recorded in 20 years: +16.23%.
Looking at the other numbers, foreign residents in the metropolitan city are 3.58% of the total (in Cagliari it reaches 5.72%), while the employment rate is 62.23%.
Again: the average per capita income is 13,270 euros (in the city of Cagliari, however, it exceeds 16,000 euros), against 23,000 in Milan , the first metropolitan city in terms of income in Italy.
The report also indicates the average old age index (i.e. the number of elderly people for every 100 children: in the metropolitan city of Cagliari it is equal to 226.72, but Cagliari as a city proves to be "older" than the municipalities in its hinterland, with an index that exceeds 312.
