Italy's declining population fuels long-term economic uncertainty

Italy's aging citizens coupled with low birth rates are shrinking the country's population. Experts are now looking to reverse the trend to boost future economic growth, Euronews correspondent Giorgia Orlandi reports.

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[watwudscoobydoo]

All your young people left because you choose propping up boomer benefits over investing in young peoples future and that’s what happens. This same issue is coming for a lot of countries

[dekev]

"If women are able to work they'll have more children" that makes absolutely no sense 🤔. Women work in Japan, Korea and China and their population is significantly shrinking. Most women in the workplace do not have kids because of their jobs. Working women even make coupling harder because they have significantly higher expectations from their men, ie if a woman is educated and high earning, she's definitely going to demand that her partner is either on her level or higher, thus reducing the amount of suitable partners ( or partners that they consider suitable).

[valeriocantore]

Italian here...
Basically another problem is the work prospective in Italy, for 40 hours every week the average salary is 850€, but if you are fresh from university is even worse like 500 or even 400 for a junior software dev.
How can you have a future?.
This is why most of the young people has or wants to leave Italy, inside my group of friends everyone has basically left, including myself.

[jesussaquin]

Pathetic, old people make up burdening laws and then complain why no one is having kids.

[tommasovasta]

Italy is old. It's a bureaucratic hell that is typical of old levantin system.
Italy failed into sorting or at least reducing the gap between the more productive and dynamic North (especially Milan and Lombardia) and the inefficient, partially still rural and corrupted South administrated by some of the worst politicians on all UE.
Italy has an insane level of taxation that keeps away most of new investors (apart from Milan, only exepction).
Italy spends too little funds in reaserching and education system preferring wasting in unproductive welfare as "reddito di cittadinanza" (sort of universal credit) and unreasonably elitaristic high pensions or for unproductive burocrats of the State.
Italy has still strong and economically invasive mafias in some areas of the country.
Italy has always been birthplace of huge talent and creativity. Aside the Roman Empire, it has been the heart of the Reinassance, the country of the first bank and university, the land of great architects (from Palladio to Renzo Piano), painters, merchants and explorers (Cristopher Columbus, Marco Polo), designers, brands etc. but at the moment Italy doesn't almost have any significant initiative or innovation and most of its iconic companies have been bought by foreign groups or conglomarets.
Honestly I can't see how this very particular country can rise up without a "drammatic" reform of its own structure...

[piccolafamiglia]

Women able to work are in a position to have more children? How nonsense. Sure we are all superhuman, having children, working, looking after school, house all!! What are men exactly for nowdatys since we do all! I am Italian, mum of three expat lived in Ireland, Germany and now Spain..I have more around 10 female cousins and 2 sisters, all childless. It is not work Finance related. It is a choice, out various circumstances ( separation, no partner, waiting too long) but a choice and it is culturally and the way they want to live related. Our society has created weak and superficial men and most people who are so into themselves that have no real willingness to give that up to sacrifice their ego to dedicate themselves entirely to someone else because that is being a mum and a parent. But in our society mums have a bigger burden than ever before because they to do it all literally( at least in the past the man was the financial provider and protector, now these weak men don't even do that). Mums have to do it all and society takes it completely for granted. Mums are literally slaves, often criticized, but raraly given any credit or solidarity. And people wonder why there are fewer children? I don't wonder at all. It is Christal clear. I bet the woman journalist of this news report have no children or decided very late to have one, two max. And she asks question to a men economist/ politician ?! just ask yourself and will get a more accurate picture of this reality

[ConstantLiak]

Basically: Use the same old strategies that have been proved to not work.

[lapun]

Don't worry. NGO boats will fill Italy with well qualified 'migrants' to stop Italy's population decline. That's surely the EU's plan.

[daneurope]

even immigrants italians are leaving italy..low income pay, no housing, no pensions in the futures..working without permit, no pension contribution..high debt..italy is collapsed in 10 years..so better leave now until you are young..

[liopleurodon]

0:54 Germany and Sweden are also far below replacement level of 2.1 children per woman....
This is an issue of values, not economics.

[johnbattle]

Bring in women from other countries like Persia, Armenia Romania Albania. Young men well have kids with these more traditional women, and you won't even know they're only half italian

[tabithan]

I feel sorry for Italy. It has fallen so far since the height of its empire. Almost totally irrelevant soon. It has become like Disney World, a tourist mecca. One huge Pompei, people come to see the bygone days, the past.

[joaov.m.oliveira]

Desde que sou um menino de 5 anos ouço falar que na Itália a população envelhece demasiado, e que não há crianças para repor. E isso já se vai vinte e poucos anos. A Itália já acabou?

[amarhadjimurad]

Accept more Ukraine citizens or refugees in the work force

[raubunuluratul]

I hope they won't apply any Gilead laws 🤔

[Michele-tpmx]

It's because of unemployment. If we Italians can find work in Italy we would love to stay in We are forced to immigrate to better countries. And this is RACIST towards Italian people!!! We are here we just want to work!!!! 2:22

[toyotaprius]

That's the result of the wealth inequality between north and south

[MaleAdaptor]

It called karma. Italy used its power and wealth to oppress the weaker nations now reaps the fruits. This is the case for the rest of Europe and the US.

[dolydoly]

My paternal and maternal great-grandparents were Italian and Portuguese who came to Brazil, I'm white, but neither Italy nor Portugal want me in their country. It's no use, they see us as animals because we were born on another continent, no matter their appearance or cultural similarity... They prefer immigrants from Africa and the Middle East... That's the truth! make it difficult for us to get a visa and make it easier for others. The process to obtain citizenship is expensive and time-consuming. If Italy gave me back the nationality of my great-grandparents I would learn Italian with pleasure, I would live there and have 10 Catholic children, but they prefer to give nationality to people from the Middle East and Africa...

[amarhadjimurad]

Job security and high paying salary many young people in Europe don't get merried for that reason specially women