Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse

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Modern societies all over the world have made it so that everything has bigger trade-offs than ever.

 

[MikelArteta]

Fukk them, happy Mother’s Day day to all the mothers in the muthafukkin motherland

got the highest birthrate of all countries

goatganda

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Having a beef patty and some red rice and sausage... and a gatorade to drink

Had banh mi, Vietnamese coconut cream coffee, and a beef pastry.

 

[Chief]

goatganda

You better have 5 kids

 

[Geek Nasty]

When you’re tough on immigration this is the results you get

Italy isn’t a colony. They shouldn’t need to rely on immigration to maintain their birth rates. Immigration is supposed to supplement your labor force. That’s a really bad economic indicator, just like what’s happening in China. They’re on the verge of a social collapse in about 10 years.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

First overpopulation was a problem
Now there is birthing problem

Over population was always some bullshyt that hippies and other cracker trash love to bleet about because they rather the poor and back die off then have a chance at the pie

All fine and dandy when they take and take but when we make moves all of a sudden its a problem

 

[Pazzy]

Notice that this is only happening in countries where people think they got options.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Italy isn’t a colony. They shouldn’t need to rely on immigration to maintain their birth rates. Immigration is supposed to supplement your labor force. That’s a really bad economic indicator, just like what’s happening in China. They’re on the verge of a social collapse in about 10 years.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse

Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it. #EuropeNews

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Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse​

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By Giorgia Orlandi

Published on 10/05/2024 - 10:53

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Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it.

Italy has long had one of the lowest birth rates in the EU, and the country is ageing at a much faster rate than other member states, and it appears to be getting worse.

According to government statistics, the average number of children per Italian woman has dropped from 1.24 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2023. Experts say that if the country's population crisis continues, Italy’s population of 59 million could fall by almost 1 million by 2030.

And the effects of the crisis are already being felt, with the ageing of the population causing problems for Italy's healthcare and pension systems.

Addressing the crisis is one of the government’s core policies, and a top priority of the parliament's ruling far-right party, the Brothers of Italy. But while the argument over how to solve the population crisis has been politicised for years, many are arguing that a consensus on a solution needs to be found.

The problems with the way the crisis is currently handled were recently on display at a two-day conference held in Rome.

The event offered a chance to discuss what is being described as a cross-party national emergency, but a brief interruption by a group of young activists who attacked the government’s anti-abortion measures showed how politically divisive the subject still is.

Organisers stressed that a private institution was behind the event, not the government.

FILE - Women protest in front of the Italian Senate in Rome, Monday, April 22, 2024.Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse

Gigi De Palo, head of the Foundation for the Birth Rate, insisted the crisis should be treated as apolitical, pointing out that it affects people in many different demographics.

"This is an issue that concerns everyone and the whole political spectrum, but also all social categories from immigrants to the elderly," he said.

The general director of the Italian National Institute of Statistics, Sabrina Prati, told Euronews the crisis has been "persistent" for many years.

"Since 2008 until today we have lost around 200,000 newborns," she said. "Two-thirds of them are due to the fact that potential parents are missing. That’s because of the decline in births that dates back to 30 years ago."

In 2023 alone the government allocated around 1 billion euros for measures aimed at helping women cope with motherhood and work.

But Ardiano Bordingnon, president of the National Forum of Families, believes this is not enough, and that an EU intervention is required.

"We are talking about a very difficult challenge of historic proportions for the whole Western world," he said. "Ideally, Europe should intervene."

Let the migrants in

 

[ORDER_66]

Let the migrants in

They only gonna let them white one's in... y'all know how italy do...

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The make it seem like Italians are about to be on the endangered species list.

A population drop by 1 million.. and they make it seem like there's only going to be 1 million left

 

[Tunez]

I'm sorry, I'm already booked for Japan and South Korea

 

[keon]

Where does Nigeria and Ghana fall on this list?

Nigeria was #15, didn’t see Ghana tho

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Dumbasses

 

[richbosszar]

When you’re tough on immigration this is the results you get

incorrect, when you tax young people over 30% because they are forced to take care of someone's grandpa on healthcare, they have less income to afford children, this is also alongside feminism and unstable property prices in western countries....