The collapse of girls: in twenty years in Sardinia 123 thousand fewer women
Birth rate in continuous decline since 1970, a share of the population gradually eroded together with the propensity to have children(symbol photo)
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It is an accelerated trend, more than in any other part of Italy.
Today in Sardinia over a quarter of the population is over 65 (26.2%), while only 10.4% is in the 0-14 age group (163 thousand out of one million and 578 thousand residents). Worrying numbers, if you consider that twenty years ago the over 65s were 16.7% and children and adolescents were 13.3%.
A land of empty cradles and no more young people, which means a shortage of manpower and an adequate number of potential parents.
If the consequences of the first evidence are denounced by entrepreneurs and employers' associations who cannot find workers, how much does the erosion of the population groups of reproductive age affect the problem of empty cradles - beyond the economic factor and the lack of childcare services?
When doing the math (taking as a reference the temporal trend of the demographic composition of the Island based on Istat data) a trend immediately stands out : in the space of twenty years, from 2003 to 2023, Sardinia has almost 123 thousand fewer women . Women who are potential mothers , between 15 and 49 years old (age groups that conventionally fall within the childbearing age), a share of the population gradually eroded together with the propensity to have children.
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