意大利国家统计局：2026年出生人数将跌至历史新低，生育率降至1.13
意大利国家统计局（ISTAT）10月21日表示，意大利今年的出生人数将进一步下降、跌至历史新低，该国的人口危机继续加重。
数据显示，意大利去年共记录355,772名新生儿，是1861年意大利统一以来的最低数字，出生人数已连续第17年下降。2026年前七个月，这一负面趋势仍在延续：新生儿略低于19.7万人，较2025年同期下降1.1%。衡量每名育龄女性平均生育子女数的总和生育率，今年1月至7月降至1.13，低于去年1.14的历史低点。
ISTAT还报告，2025年意大利女性生育第一个孩子的平均年龄为32岁，与前一年大致持平；当年44.1%的孩子出生于未婚父母，高于前一年的43.2%。去年意大利新生儿中最常见的名字，女孩是 Sofia，男孩是 Leonardo。意大利长期下滑的出生率被视为国家紧急事项，总理 Giorgia Meloni 及其历任前任均曾承诺应对这一问题，但至今无人能扭转跌势。（据路透社10月21日报道整理）
Italy's Births Set to Fall to a Record Low in 2026 as Fertility Rate Slips to 1.13, ISTAT Says
Italy's births are set to drop further this year to a historic low, aggravating the country's demographic crisis, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Wednesday, October 21.
Italy last year recorded just 355,772 births, the lowest figure since Italian unification in 1861, and the 17th consecutive year in which the figure declined. In the first seven months of 2026 the negative trend continued, with just under 197,000 newborns, down 1.1 percent from the same period of 2025, ISTAT said. The fertility rate, measuring the average number of children born to each woman of child-bearing age, edged down in January-July to 1.13, from last year's record low of 1.14.
ISTAT also reported that in 2025 the average age of women when they had their first child was 32, broadly in line with the year before, and that 44.1 percent of children were born to unmarried parents, up from 43.2 percent the year before. The most common first names given to Italian children born last year were Sofia for girls and Leonardo for boys. Italy's long-declining birth rate is considered a national emergency, and despite pledges by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her predecessors to confront the issue, no one has been able to halt the drop. (Compiled from Reuters, October 21)
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