Population Of Italy 2024 Challenges. Unlike many developed countries that have faced low population growth, italy’s population has actually decreased over the past decade, due to a fertility rate among the lowest in the world. The total population of italy declined last year by 3 per cent or 179,000.
Italy’s population is set to decline by almost a fifth over the next five decades as a result of a steadily falling birthrate, the country’s statistics agency istat said on thursday. Chart and table of italy population from 1950 to 2024.