Editing Trieste (section)

==Demographics==
{{More sources|section|date=March 2025}}{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source: [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]]
|1921 |239,558
|1931 |250,170
|1936 |248,307
|1951 |272,522
|1961 |272,723
|1971 |271,879
|1981 |252,369
|1991 |231,100
|2001 |211,184
|2011|202,123|2021|199,015}}

{| class="wikitable floatleft" style="text-align: center"
|+ [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]] 2020
|-
! ||Trieste, FVG||Italy
|-
|Median age||49 years||45.7 years
|-
|Under 18 years old||13.25%||16.6%
|-
|Over 65 years old||28.3%||23.5%
|-
|Foreign Population||11.38%||8.78%
|-
|Births/1,000 people||6.0 b||6.8 b
|}

{{as of|2020}}, there were 200,609 people residing in Trieste, located in the province of Trieste, [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]], of whom 48.1% were male and 51.9% were female.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} Trieste has lost roughly ⅓ of its population since the 1970s, due to economic decline in the historical industrial sectors of steel and shipbuilding, a dramatic drop in fertility rates and fast population ageing. Minors (children aged 18 and younger) totalled 13.25% of the population compared to pensioners, who make up 27.9% of the total. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06% (minors) and 19.94% (pensioners).{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

The average age of Trieste residents is 46, compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Trieste declined by 3.5%, and Italy as a whole grew by 3.85%.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} However, in recent times, the city has shown signs of stabilising thanks to growing immigration.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Since the annexation to Italy after World War I, there has been a steady decline in Trieste's demographic weight compared to other cities. In 1911, Trieste was the 4th largest city in the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (3rd largest in [[Cisleithania|the Austrian part of the Monarchy]]). In 1921, Trieste was the 8th largest city in the country,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1921|title=Il censimento del 1921|access-date=16 September 2015|archive-date=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506043149/http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1921|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 1961 the 12th largest,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1961|title=Il censimento del 1961|access-date=16 September 2015|archive-date=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506074339/http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1961|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 1981 the 14th largest,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1981|title=Il censimento del 1981|access-date=16 September 2015|archive-date=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506101502/http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=censimento1981|url-status=dead}}</ref> while in 2011 it dropped to the 15th place.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="max-width: 22em"
|+ Largest resident foreign-born groups (2023)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tuttitalia.it/friuli-venezia-giulia/14-trieste/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri-2024/|title=Cittadini stranieri Trieste 2024|work=tuttitalia.it|language=it|access-date=12 January 2024}}</ref>
|-
! Country of birth ||Population
|-
| {{flagicon|SRB}} Serbia ||3,667
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| {{flagicon|ROU}} Romania ||3,178
|-
| {{flagicon|KOS}} Kosovo ||1,889
|-
| {{flagicon|PAK}} Pakistan ||1,272
|-
| {{flagicon|UKR}} Ukraine ||1,199
|-
| {{flagicon|CRO}} Croatia ||1,069 
|-
| {{flagicon|PRC}} China ||961
|-
| {{flagicon|ALB}} Albania ||692
|-
| {{flagicon|SLO}} Slovenia ||556 
|-
| {{flagicon|AFG}} Afghanistan ||523
|-
|}
At the end of 2023, [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]] estimated that there were 23,882 foreign-born residents in Trieste, representing 12% of the total city population. The largest autochthonous minorities are Slovenes, Croats and Serbs,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraf.rs/zanimljivosti/zabavnik/2979662-kad-je-trst-bio-nas-evo-koje-srpske-porodice-su-zivele-u-ovom-gradu-i-to-u-najlepsim-vilama-foto|title=Kad je Trst bio naš: Evo koje srpske porodice su živele u ovom gradu i to u najlepšim vilama (FOTO)|website=Telegraf.rs|date=31 July 2018 |language=sr|access-date=2019-12-30}}</ref> but there is also a large immigrant group from Balkan nations (particularly Serbia, Romania and Croatia): 4.95%, Asia: 0.52%, and sub-saharan Africa: 0.2%. The Serbian community consists of both autochthonous and immigrant groups.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/2684/4/Chapter%202.pdf|title=Socio-demographic Overview of Immigrants and Immigrant Children in Italy}}</ref> Trieste is predominantly Roman Catholic.