From Eric Kvaalen
Health minister Beatrice Lorenzin needn’t worry about Italy’s falling birth rate (21 February, p 8).
If each woman has 1.39 children, it will take about 49 generations for the population to fall to 1 (at which point Italians will presumably go extinct).
There’s nothing to fear from a lower population. Historically, Italy has always had a lower population than now.
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France
