SIGOT added that the number of retirements is expected to peak in 2025.
The upcoming retirement wave - with an estimated 13,156 doctors set to become eligible in 2025 - looms as medical professionals face a growing demand for assistance due to the population’s aging.
According to figures released by national statistics bureau ISTAT this year, over the past two decades residents over 65 years of age have increased by over 3 million to 14.3 million in Italy.
In 2021, 55 per cent of Italy’s doctors were older than 55, compared to 44.5 per cent in France, 44.1 per cent in Germany and 32.7 per cent in Spain.
But the retirement trend is set to reverse after the peak next year, said the president of SIGOT, Lorenzo Palleschi.
Palleschi works at Rome’s San Giovanni-Addolorata Hospital.
“Only in 2030 we will be back to 2020 levels, with 7.471 annual retirements,” he said.
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