Demographics of Italy
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Image:Italy-demography.png Italy is largely homogeneous linguistically and religiously but is diverse culturally, economically, and politically. 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: 59,751,711 (December 2005).
There are around 3 million immigrants living in Italy (est. Caritas census 2005), making up ca. 5% of the total population. World Alamanac suggests that Italy has 2.3 million immigrants which would be 4% 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
[edit] 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: 9.6 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-South Tyrol |
| 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-South Tyrol, Veneto |
| French | 20 000 | French | Aosta Valley |
| Greek | 20 000 | Griko (Greek) | Calabria, Apulia |
| Catalan | 18 000 | Alguerese (Catalan) | Sardinia |
| Croatian | 2 600 | Croatian | Molise |
| Carinthian | 2 000 | German | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Carnian | 1 400 | Friulian | Veneto |
Source: Ministero degli Interni del Governo Italiano.
Official status:
- German is unofficial 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, although the actual number is certainly smaller inasmuch as statistics are based on baptism certificates. There are also mature Protestant, mainly Waldenses, and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim (see: Islam in Italy) immigrant community. The Italian Constitution provides all religious faiths equal freedom before the law.
[edit] Other statistical indicators
From the Istat "Demography in figures" 2005, http://www.demo.istat.it/index_e.html
Population estimate: 58,462,375 (Istat 2005)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
14,3% (male 4,181,946; female 3,935,565)
15-64 years:
66.9% (male 19,590,497; female 19,256,747)
65 years and over:
18,9% (male 4,608,479; female 6,484,243)
Median age:
total: 41.4 years
male: 39.8 years
female: 43 years
(2004 est.)
Birth rate: 9.7 births/1,000 population (Istat 2005)
Death rate: 9.4 deaths/1,000 population (Istat 2005)
Net migration rate:
9.6 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:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.96 male(s)/female
(2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 6.07 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.68 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.41 deaths/1,000 live births
(2004 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
80.75 years
male:
77.8 years
female:
83.7 years
(Istat 2005)
Total fertility rate: 1.45 children born/woman (Istat 2005)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.4% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 100,000 (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, other)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98.6%
male:
99%
female:
98.3%
(2003 est.)
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