The number of foreigners who acquire Italian citizenship is decreasing throughout Italy. The lowest drop was recorded in Sardinia (from +5.5% in 2019 to +5.3% in 2021) .

The lowest incidence of foreign births (4.4%) is also on the island , while the highest is in Emilia-Romagna (24.0%). This is what emerges from the Istat report "Resident foreigners and new citizens: demographic characteristics and territorial distribution - year 2021".

The birth rate of the foreign resident population as a whole is 11.2%. The primacy is held by Veneto (13.0%), followed by Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste and Emilia-Romagna with 12.9%. In Sardinia the lowest value (7.4%).

The births of children to both foreign parents are concentrated in the regions where not only is the foreign presence more widespread and rooted , but where the integration processes are also more advanced : in the North-East (20.6% of total births) and in the North-West (20.1%).

At the national level, the natural growth rate stands at 9.2% (or 9.2 per 1000 inhabitants) and varies from +11.3% in Veneto to +5.3%, in fact, in Sardinia.

The decrease in the natural component is found markedly in the autonomous provinces of Bolzano/Bozen and Trento , which from 2019 to 2021 both went from 13% to 10%.

(Unioneonline/D)

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