Less and less, but with an increase in annual deaths that far exceeds that of all the other Italian regions. In 2012, 15,887 deaths were recorded in Sardinia in the space of 12 months. Ten years later, in 2022, there were 20,524. The increase is 29.18%. A third more.

Percentage to which other territories of the Peninsula (and Sicily) do not even come close. Excluding the province of Bolzano (+21.52%), which has such negligible numbers as to have little statistical significance for a comparison, the region that recorded the second largest increase was Puglia, which went from 37,998 to 44,607: a growth of "just" 17.39%, therefore about 12 percentage points lower than the Sardinian one.

The progression of deaths on the island has been constant. 2022 has seen a dramatic acceleration. In 2021 there were 18,785 deaths, the previous year 18,994. Note: in this two-year period there was Covid, in theory, driving the statistics crazy. While in 2019 the Sardinians who had passed away were 17,206.

To make an already bleak picture worse, there is another fact: in 2012, there were approximately one million and 655 thousand residents in Sardinia. Last year – the latest survey refers to October – they dropped to one million and 577 thousand.

Istat has just said that the island is the region where fewer children are born .

Result: fewer and fewer, with deaths increasing (much) more than elsewhere and no children. The demographic disaster has served. The causes? They are varied. But experts say the death rate is rising mainly because there is a lack of treatment. And no, in Sardinia there is no higher average age.

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