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Italy's Aging Crisis and the Care Economy Squeeze
In this episode of The Demographics Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack Italy's demographic bind: a birth rate below 1.2 and a population where nearly one in four people is over 65. They focus on the economic ripple effects through the care economy — from unpaid family labor to the rising cost of elder care facilities. With specific data from Italy's National Institute of Statistics and a comparison to Japan's earlier trajectory, they explore how a shrinking workforce and growing dependency ratio are reshaping public finances and private markets. The conversation also touches on…
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