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 ...

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 ...