Italy’s Record Low Birth Rate Highlights Worldwide Population Crisis

Thus, economic and fiscal reasons are driving more and more people to cross the border.

Italy’s Record Low Birth Rate Highlights Worldwide Population Crisis

Italy’s population crisis deepened last year as the country recorded its lowest number of births since national unification in 1861, despite government incentives aimed at encouraging families to grow. According to Istat, Italy’s national statistics agency, just 370,000 babies were born in 2024 — a 2.6% drop from the previous year and the 16th consecutive annual decline in births, Financial Times reported March 31. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,…

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by Karl Denninger Market-Ticker.org Decreasing, perhaps dramatically, population to be precise. Mathematics is pretty-simple — you need a little bit over 2.0 children born per woman over her fertile lifetime in order to replace each couple, since of course men cannot give birth. Like all exponential functions small differences in the exponent over several “trials” (in this case generations) lead to wildly-different final numbers. So if you’re at…

The government reacted to the record low birth rates - The Ministry of Culture and Innovation also blames the 1995 Bokros package.

Italy is catching up with Poland in terms of the rate of extinction. In 2024, the fertility rate in Italy was 1.18 per woman, which is only slightly higher than the dramatic Polish rate of 1.12. Italy is inhabited by 59 million people. However, this number will soon begin to decline due to the drastically low fertility rate. In 2024, Italy achieved the worst fertility result in history. Italian women gave birth to an average of 1.18 children. Th…