ROME, Sept 12 (Bernama-ANSA) -- Italian doctors are the oldest in Europe with 55 per cent of them aged over 55 and the number of retirements is expected to peak in 2025, the Italian Geriatric Society Hospital and Territory (SIGOT) warned on Wednesday, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
SIGOT has said that a retirement wave is anticipated with an estimated 13,156 doctors set to become eligible in 2025. These doctors will be registered for assistance due to the population's aging.
According to figures released by national statistics bureau ISTAT this year, residents over 65 years of age have increased by over 3 million to 14.3 million in Italy, over the past two decades.
At the same time, in 2021, 55 per cent of doctors in Italy were older than 55 years old, compared to 44.5 per cent in France, 44.1 per cent in Germany, and 32.7 per cent in Spain.
After the peak expected in 2025, the president of SIGOT, Lorenzo Palleschi, who works at Rome's San Giovanni-Addolorata Hospital, said: "Only in 2030 we will be back to 2020 levels, with 7.471 annual retirements".
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