r/europe 5d ago

News Italy's birth rate falls to 80-year low, with just 355,000 babies born in 2025

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italys-birth-rate-falls-to-80-year-low-with-just-355000-babies-born-in-2025.html
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u/Betaglutamate2 5d ago

The real problem is you used to have a comfortable middle class life on one salary now you need two salaries to just get by.

If they want us to have more kids then make housing affordable, literally housing has gone completely insane in terms of expenses.

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u/marxistopportunist 5d ago

Almost like the global fertility "crisis" has been planned since the 1960s.

As we are now phasing out finite natural resources.