New registrations in the Italian registry from abroad are about 440,000 each year, but their origin has changed significantly in just three years. New residents from across the border – 328,000 acquired, net of departures, between 2023 and 2025 in the 106 provincial capitals – thus support the migration balance of our country.
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Specifically, transfers from abroad in 2025 were 439,916, about the same number as in 2023 (just +0.1%), after the peak of 451,583 reached in 2024. Arrivals from Europe lost ground, falling from 169,397 in 2023 to 135,324 in 2025. If in 2023 they represented 38.5% of all registrations from abroad, last year the share fell to 30.8 percent.
Asia moves in the opposite direction
Entries from the Asian continent increased from 94,688 to 118,647, with a 25.3% increase compared to 2023. This accounts for 27% of total arrivals, compared to 21.5% two years earlier. Last year Asia surpassed Africa, becoming the second area of origin after Europe.
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Driving the growth is Bangladesh, which took the lead as the single country of origin overall (a total of 37,494 new registrations in 2025, +44.3% over three years). Following are arrivals from Morocco, which jumped in just two years from 21,223 to 36,425 (+71.6%). In 2025, the two countries alone generated almost 74,000 registry registrations from abroad, about one in six.
Also growing from Asia are Pakistan (+25.7%) and India (+22.9%). But the strongest percentage increase concerns Sri Lanka: registrations more than doubled, from 2,876 in 2023 to 7,294 (+153.6%). China is trending downward, falling from 8,746 to 8,157 new registrations (-6.7%).
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