A new and worrying alarm comes from the pages of The New York Times, the prestigious American newspaper: Is Italy destined to disappear?
According to the diary's analysis, yes. Italy is the western country that is shrinking the most, and at a rapid pace. And perhaps it is even destined to disappear within a few generations unless there is a radical change. But what is happening? And how to reverse the trend?
The worrying demographic decline in Italy
The times of demographic explosion are now very distant: the economic recovery after two major wars and the resulting well-being led the Italian population to start a family, causing the country to register a significant demographic increase.
But it has never returned to those levels, but in fact has been in steep decline for decades – and the trend does not appear ready to reverse.
A birth rate It is one of the problems to which attention can no longer be avoided. Many Italian cities, such as Turin for example, they are experiencing a drastic decrease in their population with an increasing number of couples deciding not to have children, or just one.
Even between foreign families, which until a few years ago had contributed significantly to the increase in birth rates in Italy, there are fewer children.
The recent cause – or rather, the set of causes – is attributed to the pandemic and the crisis that caused excessive price increases in practically all sectors (including the food sector).
The increase in the average age in Italy
Faced with a sharp demographic decline, there is also a notable increase in the average age of Italians. The country is slowly becoming an elderly population. For the “New York Times” it is silver tsunami, or silver tsunami.
Among Western countries, Italy is the one with the fastest aging population: on the one hand, it no longer has children, on the other, it has a better quality of life which allows an increasing number of people to reach and even surpass the 100 years old.
In fact, in many Italian regions there is now a tree de centuries-old inhabitants, which, however, does not correspond to an equally large increase in births.
Italy is therefore destined to continue to grow old, decreasing more and more and perhaps disappearing as a population, within a few generations. Unless a way is found to reverse course, to stimulate birth rates both among Italians and among foreign couples who decide to settle in Italy.
Only in this way, with the increase in births, which will become part of the Italian contributory system in the future, will it also be possible to take care of the elderly.
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