The population of Trieste

As of April 2009, there were 205,507 residents living in Trieste, of whom 46.7% were men and 53.3% were women. In the 1970s, due to the crisis of traditional industrial steel and shipbuilding, Trieste lost about one-third of its population, resulting in a sharp decrease in the population of young adults and a rapid aging of the population. /kloc-the proportion of the population under 0/8 years old to the urban population is 13.78%, while the proportion of the retired population to the urban population is 27.9%. At that time, the proportion of population under 0/8 years old in Italy/kloc-0 was 18.06%, while the proportion of retired population was 19.94%. The average age of Trieste residents is 44. During the five years from 2002 to 2007, the population of Trieste decreased by 3.5%, while the population of Italy increased by 3.85%. However, in the last two years, due to the increase in the number of immigrants, the urban population has steadily increased. The natural birth rate in Trieste is only 7.63 ‰, which is one of the lowest cities in eastern Italy, while the natural population growth rate in Italy is 9.45.

Today Trieste is a border city with a mixed population in the surrounding areas. Triestino (Italian Triestino), the dominant local Trieste dialect, is a dialect of Venetians. This language is used in cities together with official Italian, while Slovenian is used in some suburbs near the city. Trieste is regarded as the local mother tongue (equivalent to Slovenian, German and Romance in Trieste), and a few people in the city speak Serbian, Croatian, German and Hungarian.

At the end of 2009, the Italian National Bureau of Statistics estimated that there were 15795 Trieste residents born abroad, accounting for 7.7% of the city's total population. The largest local minority is Slovenes, but there are also a large number of immigrants from Balkan countries (especially neighboring Croatia, Albania and Romania) in Trieste, accounting for 4.95% of the city's total population, and Asians account for 4.95% of the city's total population. The Serbian community in Trieste includes local Serbs and immigrants. Roman Catholicism is dominant in Trieste. Due to the influence of a large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, there are also a large number of Orthodox Christians in the city.

The most commonly used languages in Trieste are Italian and Slovenian, Venetian and Friuli. Due to geographical location and historical reasons, a small number of local residents in Trieste also use German, Istrad Romance and Hungarian.