Currently, in Italy, most deliveries take place in public hospitals, while very few are in private domiciles. For example, the region with the highest percentage of home births was the Autonomous ...

due to couples being stuck at home together. At just over 400,000 last year, Italy's births were hugely outnumbered by deaths, leading the population to drop by 384,000: equivalent to the city of ...

I'm an American citizen originally from New York City who's living in Italy with dual citizenship. The idea of giving birth in a different country was initially quite terrifying since I was not ...

In 2023 as a whole Italy recorded 379,890 births, with roughly six newborns per thousand residents. That represented a 3.4% drop on 2022 and a decline of 34.1% from 2008 - the last year the ...