In Italien sinken die Geburtenzahlen zum 15. Mal in Folge auf ein Rekordtief
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/births-fall-italy-15th-year-running-record-low-4230501
In Italien sinken die Geburtenzahlen zum 15. Mal in Folge auf ein Rekordtief
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/births-fall-italy-15th-year-running-record-low-4230501
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From article: Births in Italy dropped to a record low in 2023, the 15th consecutive annual decline, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday (Mar 29), as the population continued to shrink.
Italy’s ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but despite successive governments pledging to make it a priority, none have so far been able to halt the drop.
Last year Italy recorded 379,000 births, a 3.6 per cent decline on 2022 and a 34.2 per cent drop on 2008 – the last year Italy saw an increase in the number of babies born. It was also the lowest number since the country’s unification in 1861.
The fertility rate fell to 1.20 children per woman from 1.24 in 2022 – far below the rate of 2.1 needed for a steady population.
By contrast, some 661,000 deaths were registered last year, a fall on the previous three years when COVID boosted the mortality rate in Italy. ISTAT said life expectancy also jumped last year to 83.1 years, up six months on 2022.
While there were some 282,000 more deaths than births in 2023, Italy’s overall population only fell by 7,000 to 58.99 million thanks to the arrival of more foreign migrants and returning Italian emigres.
While there were some 282,000 more deaths than births in 2023, Italy’s overall population only fell by 7,000 to 58.99 million thanks to the arrival of more foreign migrants and returning Italian emigres.
Foreigners made up 8.99 per cent of the country’s population in 2023, for a total of 5.3 million, up 3.2 per cent year-on-year, with the majority living in the north of the country.
Italy’s overall population has been falling steadily since 2014, with a cumulative loss since then of more than 1.36 million people, equivalent to the residents of Milan, the country’s second biggest city.
ISTAT said last September that Italy could lose almost 10 per cent of its residents in the next 25 years, with the population set to decline, under a baseline scenario, to 54.4 million by 2050.
Underscoring Italy’s rapidly ageing population, ISTAT said on Friday that almost one in four residents were above the age of 65, with more people aged over 80 than under 10 for the first time. Half a century ago, the ratio was one to nine.
This is something that’s either happening now, or will happen in the very near future to every industrialized nation in the world.
Demographics collapse is a real thing and we’re going to continue to see it go on unless massive national efforts are made to turn it around.
This will require the complete subsidizing of couples in order to have large families. It will be extensive, covering two to three generations, it will be expensive to an extreme, or we’re going to continue to see the collapse continue.
Why is it a bad thing? Because small young generations will NOT be able to carry the large elderly population. This means increasing taxes and demands on the younger generations until we see a complete national disaster where the young stop bothering to work entirely and the elderly generation has to fend for itself.
Japan is almost there. SK, Germany, Russia, China and a lot of other nations are nearly there. The only nations that can avoid this are those that aggressively promote immigration and adopt large groups into the nation to make up for the lack of local births.