Fewer newborn children in Italy

-6
thousand

In Italy, in 2011, the newborn children were 6,000 less than in 2010. For a total of 556,000 births. The new mothers are mostly Italian (82%). Their average age at childbirth was 31.4 years with substantial differences between native and foreign women: 32.1 years for the former and 28 years for the latter. These are some of the figures recently released by the National Institute for Statistics.