Italy's demographic crisis - part four
Beginning in the 1990s, the season of immigration in Italy opened, which in just a few years led an almost mono-ethnic nation to host nearly 10 percent foreign population on its territory.
Beginning in the 1990s, the season of immigration in Italy opened, which in just a few years led an almost mono-ethnic nation to host nearly 10 percent foreign population on its territory.
After the post-World War II demographic bounce, the Italy of prosperity and boom is heading for a demographic winter, with births falling below the replacement rate.
Italy's demographic winter is approaching a point of no return: an old population unable to reproduce and defend itself, resigned and impoverished, at the mercy of younger, dynamic and enterprising peoples.