“The decline in the population of Piedmont, which went from 4.5 million at the end of the 1980s to 4.25 million at the end of 2023, is accelerating and does not tend to stop. If everyone born in 2023 lived for 82 years, while maintaining a constant average of two children per couple, the 25 thousand born last year would create a potential Piedmont of two million inhabitants, halved compared to today. This will affect consumption and the value of homes: we will have entire empty towns and companies that will no longer be able to produce due to lack of manpower”.
This is the alarm raised by the president of Confindustria Novara Vercelli Valsesia (CNVV) Gianni Filippa in his speech at the general assembly of CNVV held on 26 June at the Amazon Operations Innovation Lab in Vercelli, according to which the birth rate problem also concerns businesses .
“Without immigration, internal or foreign – Filippa underlined – by 2040 Novara would go from 225 thousand to 181 thousand potential employable resources and Vercelli from 100 thousand to 77 thousand. Immigration should therefore not be seen only as a problem, but also as an opportunity that must be managed by directing it towards the professions that our companies need most and by strengthening training schools in the countries of origin. We must give concrete answers to young people and foreigners who move for work, also by guaranteeing them affordable housing. Support for rent expenses, for example, should become part of corporate welfare”.
