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The current health and economic crisis linked to the pandemic could negatively affect not only the number of deaths, but also the birth rate. “In fact, it is legitimate to hypothesize that the climate of fear and uncertainty and the increasing difficulties of a material nature (linked to employment and income) generated by recent events will negatively influence the fertility choices of Italian couples.” This was stressed by the president of the Istat, Gian Carlo Blangiardo, during a hearing on the maneuver before the budget committees of the Chamber and the Senate. “The 420 thousand births registered in Italy in 2019, which already represent a minimum never reached in more than 150 years of national unity, could fall, according to an Istat scenario updated based on the most recent trends, to about 408 thousand in the balance end of the current year, recognizing a likely decline in conception in March in December, and then further reduced to 393,000 in 2021, “he added.
The crisis has affected the South and young people more, “but this time it was mainly women – mostly employed in services (the most affected sector with 809,000 fewer employees than in the second quarter of 2019) and in precarious jobs – who suffered greater effects: in the second quarter of 2020 there were 470,000 fewer employees compared to the same quarter of the previous year (323,000 fewer among those with a fixed-term contract) and the employment rate for women aged 15 to 64 was in 48, 4%, compared to 66.6% of men, which places us in the penultimate place in the European ranking, just above Greece “, continues the president of Istat. Data on female employment in Italy “They remain worrisome despite the fact that the level of education of women is significantly higher than that of men,” he concluded.
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