That we were a country of old was known for some time. The novelty is that we are a country of old, with centenarians has tripled in 10 years. And we are also a country increasingly populated (60 million 600 thousand inhabitants) from foreign (328 000 more than last year) that by Italians (67 000 less). In short, legal immigrants (and then there are the others) are 4 and a half million, of which only one million Romanians and Albanians are a further half a million, followed by Moroccans, Filipinos, Chinese and so forth. More and more prolific. Whether we like it or not, of course. The Istat survey says this demographic indicators 2010. As for the future (again, whether we like it or not) the public will be less flag and those of other origins more and more. And this for two specific and concomitant factors: the first is that Italian women continue to make very few children, an average of 1.4 in women (we were in 2009 to 1.41 in 2008, 1.42), while foreign make 2.3. The second factor is the increase in old and requires ever-increasing demand for carers. The over sixty are more than a fifth of the population (20.3%) and in the last 10 years have increased by 180 thousand units per year (1.8 million total). During the same period - just to make a comparison - under 14 rose by just 348 000 units in total, bringing their share to 14.3%. Not only that we live much, much more. The life expectancy for a Man is more than 79 years, and for a woman over 84, with an increasing number of centenarians, who have broken the limit of 16 thousand and has tripled in 10 years. This is Italy's demographics. But with huge differences between areas of the country that also lead to a political reading of these statistics. For example: is it true that children are few, but the big mother are no longer the Mediterranean Filumena Marturano of Naples and the South, what, if anything, the respectable ladies of the North. If the fertility rate - you said - 1, 4, to overcome this threshold there are women in the Trentino with 1, 58, those with the Val d'Aosta 1, 54, Lombardy with 1, 48, Emilia with 1, 46 and Friuli with 1, 43. In short: the children are not where there is - rhetorically - 'increased openness to life, but where social services are more efficient and more women feel supported and where they open more job opportunities. In 2010, 557,000 children were born, 12,200 fewer than last year. A trend which Istat said that "it appears to have ended for the Italian stage of recovery which he had witnessed in the past decade." To have a birth rate lower than that of 2010 must go back to 2005, when they were 554 000. The reduction in 2010 compared to 2009 (-2.1%) is generalized on a regional scale and in this situation is becoming increasingly important contribution to the birth of the foreign, it is estimated, in fact, this year more than 104 000 births (18.8% of the total) are attributable to foreign mothers (there were 35 000 in 2000, 6.4% and 103 000 in 2008, 18.1%), including 4.8% with an Italian partner. Not only that. The more developed regions are also those who are able to ensure better living conditions for elderly people, so much so that among those in which it is the oldest still appear Trentino, Tuscany, Veneto, Lombardy. Istat also points out another factor of difficulty in the South, if ever it were needed: the migration has begun again Internal to the North, with a transfer of nearly 2 per thousand of population from the South to the Central and North. Once again, to exert a particular attraction is the Trentino - which is tantamount to a California of Italy - Emilia, along with the Veneto that has a reputation as the region more hostile to those coming from outside,
but is - instead - one of the areas where integration is most successful.
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