The now chronic decline in births continues in Italy. A drop that in Sardinia is a real emergency.
This is certified by the new Istat demographic survey , which signals in 2022 the umpteenth decrease in newborns at national level and beyond : in our country there were 392,598 babies registered in the registry last year, with a drop of 1. 9% (equal to 7,651 fewer babies) than in 2021.
«At a territorial level - underlines the Institute - the birth rate, equal to 6.7 per thousand residents on a national average in 2022, once again confirms the primacy of the autonomous province of Bolzano with 9.2 per thousand, while the Sardinia has the lowest value: 4.9 per thousand ».
Last year, a total of 7,695 newborns were born on the island.
“If the trend in births in 2021 – continues Istat – has left little doubt on the role played by the epidemic in relation to failed conception, the dynamics underlying the calendar in 2022 are more complex . The context of the health crisis is still present in 2021 and the resulting economic uncertainties may have encouraged couples to once again postpone their parenting plans ».
As for deaths, in Italy, in 2022, 713,499 deaths were recorded, about 12 thousand more than the previous year but - Istat specifies - 27 thousand less than in 2020, the year of maximum mortality due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 19.
The birth crisis in Sardinia is added to that of depopulation . As pointed out by Gigi Littarru, former mayor of Desulo , who on Facebook, commenting on the latest demographic data, writes: «We are in the middle of the electoral campaign for the next Regional Elections. I quietly invite future candidates to carefully read the demographic data of the countries of the interior. It's mid-March and Desulo is already 15 residents down. Mind you – adds Littarru -, it's not the dead who dominate, people leave the towns for other things . He goes away for work, for a well-being that he will never find in the city!
But all this, it seems, does not really matter. To curb this slow and inexorable depopulation - concludes Littarru - we need serious policies agreed with the populations".
