Fertility dynamics in the province of Udine

Thirteen years after the Venus survey on the decline of fertility in vari- ous national geographical contexts, this analysis intends to resume the study of the spatial and temporal dynamics of the main demographic measures within the Udine provincial context. Careful assessment of the trends in fertility rate and mean age of women at childbirth in the last 40 years, their citizenship, popula- tion growth rate during 2012-2017 and 2016 birth rate, unfortunately failed to confirm the fertility upswing previously highlighted. The initial growth due to the contribution of the foreign population seems to have been nullified over time with a sharper decline in the fertility of foreign women. Despite the heteroge- neous annual population rate increases across the province’s territory, especially in the most populated municipalities, territorial level fertility rates tend to de- crease homogeneously, with the risk of being confirmed in projected terms.