Demography of Italy. Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands

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Population

Population: 58,133,509 (December 2005).

There are around 3 million immigrants living in Italy (est. Caritas census 2005), making up ca. 4% of the total population. World Alamanac suggests that Italy has 2.3 million immigrants which would be 3% of the total population.

Families: 21,503,088 (55,920,840 Italians in a familiar status, 2.60 Italians per family)

• Most populated comune (residents) Rome
• Least populated comune (residents) Morterone (LC) 33
• Greatest human density (residents per km²) Portici (NA) 13,032.1
• Greatest comune territory (km²) Rome (RM) 1,285.30
• Smallest comune territory (km²) Fiera di Primiero (TN) 0.15

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Metropolitan areas

According to the figures (2006) of World Gazetteer.

• Milan - 4.282.280
• Naples - 3.803.753
• Rome - 3.695.467
• Turin - 1.688.857
• Palermo - 996.767
• Florence - 866.322
• Catania - 859.559
• Genoa - 695.058
• Bologna - 564.674

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Cities ranked by population

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Immigration

Traditionally a country of emigrants, in the last 20 years Italy has become a country of immigration, with about 2% of the population fitting that description.

156,179 foreigners were counted in the 1971 census, (Source: Italian Caritas); according to the last figure (Caritas est. 2005 [1]), 2.8 million immigrants live legally in Italy, while estimates for undocumented immigrants vary from 0.8 million to 2 million. Italy is periodically legalizing unauthorized foreigners. The Caritas House in Caine Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. ...

According to ISTAT figures, there were 2,402,157 foreigner citizens resident in Italy at the end of 2004. Of these a little over a half were citizens of Albania (13.2%), Morocco (12.3%), Romania (10.4%), People's Republic of China (4.7%), Ukraine (3.9%), Philippines (3.4%), Tunisia (3.3%), or Republic of Macedonia (2.4%). [2] Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) is the Italian national statistical institute, roughly corresponding to the United States Census Bureau. ... For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ...

Net migration rate: 9.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)^{[citation needed]}

Languages

Main article: Italian dialects

Main article: List of languages of Italy

The official and common language is Italian. The Italian people generally indicates as Italian dialects all vernacular idioms spoken in Italy other than Italian and other recognized languages. ... Italy currently has one national language: Standard Italian. ...

Officially recognized minority language groups are: A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a country. ...

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Official status:

• German is official in South Tyrol, where in 1991 there were 287,503 German and 116,914 Italian speaking people.
• Standard French is official only in the Valle d'Aosta, but the spoken dialects of this region and of some northern valleys of Piedmont are precisely French-Provençal, which reveals some differences from pure French).

South Tyrol-Alto Adige (Italian: Alto Adige, German and Ladin: Südtirol; official in Italian: Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige, official in German: Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, official in Ladin: Provinzia Autonòma de Balsan - Südtirol) is an autonomous province of Italy that belongs to the region...

Religion

Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion: 97% of native-born citizens are officially registered as Catholic, though only a minority is practicing. There are also mature Protestant, mainly Waldenses, and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim (see: Islam in Italy) immigrant community. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Waldensians were followers of Peter Waldo (or Valdes or Vaudes); they called themselves the Poor men of Lyon, the Poor of Lombardy, or the Poor. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... Although Sicily, Sardinia and some regions in Peninsular Italy have been part of the Muslim Ummah between 828 (Muslim conquest of Sicily) and 1300 (destruction of the last Islamic stronghold of Lucera in Puglia), Islam was almost entirely absent in Italy from the time of the countrys unification in...

Other statistical indicators

From the Istat "Demography in figures" 2005, http://www.demo.istat.it/index_e.html

Population estimate: 58,133,509 (Istat 2006)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 14.8% (male 4,181,946; female 3,935,565)
15-64 years: 66.5% (male 19,590,497; female 19,256,747)
65 years and over: 18.7% (male 4,608,479; female 6,484,243)

Median age:
total: 42.2 years
male: 40.7 years
female: 43.7 years (2004 est.)

Birth rate: 9.72 births/1,000 population (Istat 2005)

Death rate: 9.4 deaths/1,000 population (Istat 2005)

Net migration rate: 2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (Istat 2005)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2004 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.83 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.19 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.81 years
male: 76.88 years
female: 82.94 years (Istat 2005)

Total fertility rate: 1.33 children born/woman (Istat 2005)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Italian(s)
adjective: Italian

Ethnic groups: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovenian-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)

(96.0% Italian, 0.9% Arab North African, 0.8% Italo-Albanian, 0.8% German, 1.5% French, 0.4% South Asian, other) Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Muslim Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Mizrachi Jews, Sephardi Jews[], Ashkenazi Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ‎; transliteration: ) is a member of a Semitic-speaking people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories... Map of South Asia South Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, . It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent, and is also known as the Indian subcontinent. ...

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.6%
male: 99%
female: 98.3% (2003 est.)

See also

• List of Italians

This is a list of notable Italians In alphabetical order. ...

External link

• Demographic page (English)