ANALYSIS
ROME, May 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Italy’s truly catastrophic birthrate was at the center of the “Estates General of Births” this Friday: An unprecedented multi-partisan meeting that took place at the grand Auditorium of the Via della Conciliazione that leads from the Tiber to Saint Peter’s Basilica. Mario Draghi, president of the council of ministers, and other politicians, as well as pro-family activists and experts gave multiple talks, but the event was most notable because of the presence of Pope Francis himself, who spoke openly of the “demographic winter” that is currently slowly depleting Italy of its population.
One of the main organizers of the event was “Forum delle associazioni familiari,” the “Forum of family associations,” led by Gianluigi De Paolo.
Conferences and round tables led by mainstream politicians, journalists, statisticians, and entrepreneurs all agreed that with a birthrate that dropped to 1.27 child per woman of childbearing age in 2019, Italy is set to disappear — or at least to face bad trouble in the near future.
In a developed country, the basic birthrate for the replacement of generations is 2.1 children per woman of childbearing age. At less than 1.3, only two thirds of a given generation
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