Italy heading for demographic ‘crisis’ as population set to shrink by a fifth

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  1. Hmm.. a lot of elderly people move to Italy, Spain, Greece for more comfortable living in warmer climate.🤷‍♂️

  2. Hard to find a steady job with decent income. How can you plan for a family when you can barely pay your rent?

  3. Not really a news, we have known that for quite a bit. Lots of people can’t or can barely afford to sustain themselves, how are they supposed to get a family?

  4. What I don’t understand about Italy, is why are so many government jobs limited to people 30 and under when the median age is 47.3.

  5. It’s going to be a Europe-wide issue. Even France is having difficulties, but they can manage. The rest of the EU is gonna go through an intense demographic crunch. A 1.5 fertility rate requires around 1% of the base population to immigrate each year to keep the national (working) population steady if we take the premise that the immigrants adapt to the host country’s fertility rate. It’s just not feasible.

  6. It willl shrink by a hell of a lot more than a fifth.

    The number of births per year is currently 400,000.

    Assuming every woman has two children the population over 80 years would be :

    32 million.

    Over the next 50 years it will be appox.

    400,000 * 50 = 20 million.

    Plus 16 million which are the babies born between 1990 and 2020.

    36 million in the next 50 years plus or minus imi, emi gration.

  7. Western Europe countries are slowly destroying themselves on so many fronts. Stupidity and greed finally caugh up in this part of the world too.

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