The president of the Istat: “We will exceed 700 thousand deaths in 2020. The last time was in 1944, in the middle of World War II”

The pandemic as war. How many times have we heard scientists compare the fight Covid to the battles to be won day after day? Now that comparison also makes statistical sense. “2020 is not over yet, but a reasonable assessment suggests that this year we will cross the border 700 thousand deaths in total, which is a worrying value because something like this last time, in Italy, had happened in 1944. We were in the middle of World War II ”. Istat president Gian Carlo Blangiardo illustrated numbers showing how much weight he was Sars on 2 on the Italian population during the broadcast of Agorà on Rai Tre. In 2019 the figure was 647,000 dead ”. In Italy the threshold of 65 thousand deaths from coronavirus has been exceeded.

Today, Istat released the 2019 census data. The results of the statistical analysis are that residents have decreased and foreigners have increased and the average age has increased even more. Half of the population did not go beyond the education of middle School, but there are more busy and less inactive. At the end of 2019 – the document reads – the citizens surveyed amounted to 59,641,488, some 175 thousand people less than on December 31, 2018, which is equivalent to -0.3%. A substantially stable figure compared to 2011 (year of the last traditional census), when there were 59,433,744 inhabitants (+ 0.3%, for a total of +207,744 people). Compared to 2011, residents decrease bySouthern Italy and in Islands (-1.9% and -2.3%), and an increase inCentral italy (+ 2%) and in both divisions of north. The census also shows a true flight from the South with more than 400 thousand inhabitants less than in 2011.