These data nevertheless reveal a disconnect between the resources available and the country’s capacity to utilize them to regain the path of sustained and balanced growth, to return Italy as swiftly as possible to levels of well-being not experienced for more than ten years now, and to offer future generations the chance to improve their standards of living, health and general culture.
The demographic trends are not favourable: even taking account of the contribution of immigration (estimated by Eurostat to amount to approximately 200,000 persons on average per year), the population aged between 15 and 64 will decline by more than 3 million over the next 15 years.