ROME: Italy's school population will shrink by one million in the coming decade because of the plunging birth rate and continuing brain drain, the education minister said on Thursday (May 11). National statistics bureau ISTAT has said births in Italy dropped to a historic low below 400,000 in 2022, the 14t
ROME: Italy's school population will shrink by one million in the coming decade because of the plunging birth rate and continuing brain drain, the education minister said on Thursday .
A shrinking and ageing population is a major worry for the euro zone's third-largest country, leading to falling economic productivity and higher welfare costs in a country with the highest pension bill in the 38-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said pupil numbers will fall to 6 million in the 2033 and 2034 academic year from 7.4 million in 2021, with 110,000 to 120,000 fewer students entering the classrooms each year."The scenario is alarming," Valditara said in a video message to a conference on the crisis. Pope Francis, who has warned that Italy faces a"demographic winter", is due to address the meeting on Friday.
Looking to help families, the government last week passed a labour package which includes a waiver on this year's taxes on fringe benefits for employees with children, up to a maximum of 3,000 euros per worker.
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