A demographic chasm is being created in Sardinia due to the declining birth rate. This is confirmed by the Acli Mete 2024 report, presented today in Cagliari. The Sardinians are decreasing and continue to age: the percentage variation of the population between 2023 and 2024 places Sardinia in the second-to-last place in all of Italy, with a -0.5%.
In eight years the Sardinian population has lost 88,306 people: currently the inhabitants are 1,569,832, in 2050 they will be 1,239,379, 21% less. In the last year alone, 8,314 inhabitants have been lost, the equivalent of a municipality the size of Dorgali.
The data is not sufficiently compensated by immigration. The dynamics of foreign communities in Sardinia in 2023 shows Romania as the main nation of origin of foreigners in Sardinia: there are 11,313. Senegal follows with 4,289 citizens present in Sardinia, followed by Morocco, China, Ukraine and the Philippines. But it is the increase data compared to 2022 that puts Ukraine in first place with 16% more citizens arrived in Sardinia in one year, while Morocco loses 3% of the population resident in Sardinia, surprisingly Germany also grows with 5% more than last year.
Emigrants are also growing: as of December 31, 2022, those registered with AIRE from Sardinia were 128,350 out of a total of 5,933,418 Italian emigrants.
Of concern is the data on the population between zero and 14 years old: Sardinia is in last place nationally with 10%, compared to an Italian average of 16.7. School dropout continues to grow, which in Sardinia stands at 17.3% against an Italian average of 10%. In Sardinia, people with at least a high school diploma, between 25 and 64 years old, are 54.6% against the 65.5 of the Italian average, over 10% less.
(Online Union)