Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year.
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00:00 The Pope told Italians to have more babies.
00:06 The pontiff's call came at an annual gathering of pro-family groups in Rome on Friday.
00:11 "The investments that give more income are the arms factory and the contraceptives.
00:26 One destroys life, the other prevents life.
00:32 And these are the investments that give more income.
00:35 Here the future is waiting for us.
00:38 It's bad."
00:39 Francis also asked for more social policies to support families with children.
00:44 "The problem of our world is not the children that are born.
00:50 It's the selfishness, the consumerism, the individualism that makes people sad, lonely
00:59 and unhappy.
01:00 The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people.
01:06 Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for a future."
01:12 Italy's got one of the lowest birth rates in the world.
01:15 Experts warned this trend could drag Italy into financial collapse.
01:20 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni insisted that boosting natality is top of her agenda, describing
01:26 it however as the government's biggest challenge.
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