Italy's birth rate stayed on a
downward trend in 2019, when 421,913 babies were born here, down
by 20,763 on the 442,676 births registered in 2018, according to
a health ministry report released on Wednesday.
It said 3.06 of every 100 pregnancies in 2019 was the result of
assisted reproductive procedures such as IVF for a total of
12,800 newborns.
That was up from 2.53 pregnancies out of every 100 in 2018.
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