Straight Line of the Day: Italy’s Going Extinct? One Solution Is…
Italy is Dying: Country’s Birth Rate Drops to its Lowest Level in History
LifeSite News | 2/20/20 | Dorothy Cummings McLeanItaly welcomed its smallest number of newborns in 2019, leading its president to foretell the country’s doom.
“This is a problem that concerns the very existence of our country,” said Sergio Mattarella, 78.
“The fabric of our country is weakening, and everything must be done to counter this phenomenon.”
According to Italy’s national statistics agency, ISTAT, there were only 435,000 births in Italy last year, the lowest number ever recorded in the country, compared with 647,000 deaths.
The number of births was down 5,000 from 2018, and the number of deaths increased by 14,000.
Reuters reported that Italy’s overall population fell by 116,000 to 60.3 million despite the growing number of births to migrants to the country.
The news agency also noted that “Italy’s population had risen virtually every year since World War I, hitting a peak in 2015 at 60.8 million, but has since started to decline.”
Life expectancy has increased to 85.3 years for Italian women and 81 years for Italian men. The decrease in births and increase in life expectancy has resulted in an average age of 45.7.
When the low number of Italian births for 2018 was reported, then-interior minister Matteo Salvini said, “We are in a terrible state.”
“This is the real crisis (in Italy), not the bond yield spreads or the economic crisis.”
Italian-American Beverly Stevens, editor of Regina magazine, told LifeSiteNews that the sexual revolution is to blame for the low Italian birth rate.
Show me a modern Sophia Loren, and I’ll see what I can do.
Replace moon with large pizza pie.
That’s Amore.
…they should go f*** themselves.
Repatriate cast of Jersey shore.
More oyster in the white sauce.
Italy’s Going Extinct? One Solution Is…
to let in all those refugees that want to be Italian.
Italy’s Going Extinct? One Solution Is…
do nothing, that’s what all those wacko environment doomsayers want, ain’t it?
It’s not feminism, it’s a result of all the fascism.
well, if there is no solution, at least copy down the recipes, okay?
Europe has been trying to give Italy the boot as long as I can remember.
…do wop!
Baseball! More Italian baseball players means more Italians!
Release the Kraken…
Leave the guns, take the Cannolis… (Bridget is especially fetching)
…the rise of Pastafarianism
Italy needs a reboot.