Mortality figures offer good news about Covid. But it is the birth rate that makes us tremble

After the more than 200,000 more deaths in the three-year period 2020-2022 due to the pandemic, the death crisis has returned in the March 2023 numbers. Births, on the other hand, continue to be very few and immigration weighs heavily on the balance

Good, less good, bad news on the demographic front. Once the data for March 2023 has arrived, we can begin to sum up the movement of the Italian population in the first quarter of the current year compared to the first quarters of previous years. Movement that shows trends that can now be considered consolidated. And here we come precisely, speaking of trends, to the news that are of various coinage and vary in quality as could not be more. Meanwhile, the dead. There were 179,101, 17,406 less than the first quarter of 2022 and a good 23,202 less than the first quarter of 2020, the first pandemic year, with very significant decreases of 8.9 percent and 11.5 percent respectively. But even 2 percent less than in the first quarter of 2019, a non-pandemic year. In short: the super mortality linked to Covid, which also extended from 2020 to 2021 and even to 2022 has definitively returned after determining over 200,000 more deaths in the three-year period 2020-2022.