Italy's plummeting birth rate worsened by pandemic

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Italy's birth rate is at its lowest since 1861 and Covid-19 has made it harder to start a family.

For Micaela Pisanu and Pino Cadinu, the vines on their Sardinian hillside require an investment of love and care. Rather like their plan for a baby that they, like a record number of Italian couples, have felt compelled to postpone.

At just over 400,000 last year, Italy's births were hugely outnumbered by deaths, leading the population to drop by 384,000: equivalent to the city of Florence being wiped off the map. But Italy, with the world's second-oldest population and a long-stagnating economy that's helped drive 10% of its population to live abroad, is particularly vulnerable.Sardinia has the country's lowest birth rate of all: less than one child per family.

Eleven-year-old Nicolas is in no doubt. "Lots of people have left for opportunities elsewhere, which makes sense," he says, "as there's not much work around." Last year, it fell far short of the threshold of 500 babies to stay open. And now it could close, says Debora Porrà, the mayor of a nearby town that the unit serves.

 

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The world needs less people so this isn’t an issue

But they’re Italians. Don’t they - you know - constantly?

Declining birth rate is fabulous news. Too many humans.

they need not worry about Italian babies Ten of 1000s young blacks want to move to Italy

So, not allowing people out of their houses for six months, has decreased the overall number of new babies? Pretty sure that’s a win, no matter where they are.

Fake news. Italian deaths in 2020 were same as in 2019 or '18. Just like other countries, all deaths were reported as deaths due to fake pandemic called Covid. On being caught the CDC fudged the figures

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