{"id":125646,"date":"2024-02-23T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:00:43","slug":"the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The oldest country in Europe: What\u2019s behind Italy\u2019s ageing problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125646\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nDeclining birth rates and higher chances of survival for older people have significantly aged Italy\u2019s population, to the point that economists are worried about the country\u2019s future. Italy\u2019s ageing problem is starting to take its toll on the country\u2019s world-famous \u2018dolce vita\u2019. The country&#8217;s growing number of pensioners isn\u2019t nearly matched by the number of newborns. And efforts by Giorgia Meloni\u2019s right-wing government to boost birth rates have so far failed to turn the tide on Italy&#8217;s demographic decline.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data from Eurostat, Italy is the oldest country in the European Union, with half of the population currently having an average median age of above 48. Together with Portugal, Italy has the highest percentage of residents older than 65, equal to 24% &#8211; or roughly one in four. This increase reflects a European-wide trend, with the bloc experiencing an overall rise in its median age (44.5 years old). The number of elderly people now represents more than one-fifth of the bloc&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, what\u2019s even more significant is the ageing trend within Italy\u2019s older population itself,\u201d Cecilia Tomassini, a professor in Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Molise, told Euronews.\u201cSpecifically, the proportion of individuals aged 80 and above has risen to 7.7% of the total population, a notable increase from a mere 3.3% recorded in 1991,\u201d she added. \u201cEssentially, while the overall population increased by 3.4% since 1991, the segment aged 80 and above more than doubled during the same period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Italian \u2018nonni\u2019 &#8211; well-beloved figures in the country as well as abroad &#8211; are not the problem, Giovanni Lamura from Italy&#8217;s National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing told Euronews. \u201cTo have people live longer should be a goal on the political agenda of any country\u2019s government,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is that fertility rates in Italy are low, we have fewer and fewer children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason for Italy\u2019s ageing population is simple: the number of deaths, due to its ageing population, far surpasses the number of births. For the past 40 years, the median number of kids per family in Italy has been below 1.5, Alessandro Rosina, professor of Demography and Social Statistics at the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica di Milano, told Euronews. \u201cThe most recent data is below 1.24 per woman,\u201d he said. A rate of 2 births per woman is needed to keep a population stable.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/02\/23\/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/02\/23\/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem\/\">The oldest country in Europe: What\u2019s behind Italy\u2019s ageing problem?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[723,1552,9753,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-125646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-country","tag-italy","tag-oldest","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}