Demographics of Italy
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Italy has the fifth-highest population density in Europe — about 194 persons per square kilometre (490 per square mile).
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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===
not representing metropolitan areas: from the December 2004 Istat report (www.istat.it):
[edit] 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.
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]
Net migration rate: 9.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)[citation needed]
[edit] Languages
The official and common language is Italian.
Officially recognized minority language groups are:
| Group | Population | Native language | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sardinian | 1,269,000 | Sardinian | Sardinia |
| Friulian | 526,000 | Friulian | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Tyrolean | 290,000 | German | Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol |
| Occitan | 178,000 | Occitan | Piedmont, Liguria, Calabria |
| Roma/Sinti | 130,000 | Romany | the whole country |
| Albanian | 98,000 | Albanian | southern Italy, Sicily |
| Franco-Provençal | 90,000 | Franco-Provençal | Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Apulia |
| Slovenian | 70,000 | Slovenian | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Ladin | 55,000 | Ladin | Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto |
| French | 20,000 | French | Aosta Valley |
| Greek | 20,000 | Griko (Greek) | Calabria, Apulia |
| Catalan | 18,000 | Alguerese (Catalan) | Sardinia |
| Croatian | 2600 | Croatian | Molise |
| Carinthian | 2000 | German | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Carnian | 1400 | Friulian | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
Source: Ministero degli Interni del Governo Italiano.
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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.6%
male: 99%
female: 98.3% (2003 est.)
[edit] See also
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