Report: Immigration Crisis Causing ‘Unprecedented’ Shift in Italy’s Demographics

Report: Immigration Crisis Causing ‘Unprecedented’ Shift in Italy’s Demographics: A deadly combination of a plummeting birthrate and massive immigration portend that native Italians will make up an increasingly small percentage of Italy’s overall population, a new study reports.

Italy’s fertility rate is less than half of what it was in 1964, the Centro Machiavelli reported in its study titled “How immigration is changing Italian demographics.” It has dropped from 2.7 children per woman to just 1.5 children per woman currently, a figure well below the replacement level for zero population growth of roughly 2.1 children per woman.

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