[dangus]

Just checked... the data doesn't jive... 520,000 births works out to less than 1 per hundred residents.... US is closer to 1 per 40, and we're barely at replacement levels. I think the problem is partly due to a fantastically large portion of the population simply never marrying at all, while (unlike the US) also never having children, but the corrollary statistics for that are just too amazing.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Italy has around 9 births per 1000 people. The numbers are spot on.

The US has around 3.9 million births per year and 286 million people. That is 1 per 73 residents, or around 13.6 per thousand.

US Catholics have 1.05 million infant baptism per year and 65 million people, or 16 per thousand.