Italy sees worst gap between births, deaths since 1918 Spanish flu

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

According to the Italian National Institute of Statistics, commonly referred to as ISTAT, more than 746,000 deaths were registered in 2020, almost 112,000 more than 2019 — an increase of 17.6% — and the highest number recorded since the end of World War II.

While Italy has been experiencing a population decline since 2015, there were about 384,000 fewer people — equivalent to the total population of Florence in Italy or Cleveland in the U.S. — registered as residents as of Dec. 31, 2020, compared to the end of 2019, it said.

The report said a little more than 404,000 births were registered in 2020, down by almost 3.8% with 16,000 fewer births with respect to 2019.

With a record low in the number of births and a record high in deaths, Italy saw its already diminishing population-replacement level affected with the highest gap between births and deaths (-342,000) since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 when the gap was -648,000 with 1.3 million deaths that year — nearly half attributed to that virus.

Fewer than 97,000 marriages were celebrated in 2020, a drop of 47.5% compared to 2019.

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Italy sees worst gap between births, deaths since 1918 Spanish flu

Population can and will be replaced. Taxpayers - not so easily, so better keep some.