Italy has 60,808,000 inhabitants according to estimates current as of January 1 2015. Its population density, at 201 inhabitants per square kilometre (520/sq mi), is higher than that of most Western European countries. However the distribution of the population is widely uneven.
Italy, including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily covers an area of 301,338 square km. It is made up 20 administrative regions.
Italian Population has been mainly affected by the high birth rate of 9.78 births per 1,000 people and relatively high life expectancy and low death rate of 9.82 deaths/1,000 people.
Some of the largest populated cities of Italy are Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Genoa. Among other major Italian cities the most populated having more than 250,000 inhabitants are Bologna, Florence, Bari, Catania, Venice and Verona.
According to latest reports as per the Italian Statistics Office, the literacy rate among Italy Population is 98% with schooling been made mandatory for children aged between 6 and 18.
The demographic details of Italy are listed as follows:
- Italy's population is equivalent to 0.84% of the total world population
- Italy ranks number 23 in the list of countries by population
- 69% of the population is urban (42,101,235 people in 2014).
- The median age in Italy is 44.7 years.
- Italy has the fourth-largest population in the European Countries
Italy, including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily covers an area of 301,338 square km. It is made up 20 administrative regions.
Italian Population has been mainly affected by the high birth rate of 9.78 births per 1,000 people and relatively high life expectancy and low death rate of 9.82 deaths/1,000 people.
Some of the largest populated cities of Italy are Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Genoa. Among other major Italian cities the most populated having more than 250,000 inhabitants are Bologna, Florence, Bari, Catania, Venice and Verona.
According to latest reports as per the Italian Statistics Office, the literacy rate among Italy Population is 98% with schooling been made mandatory for children aged between 6 and 18.
The demographic details of Italy are listed as follows:
- Population: 60,808,000approximately
- Age structure can be defined as:
- 0-14 years: 14.03%
- 15-64 years: 65.93%
- 65 years and over: 20.04%
- Growth Rate of Population: 0.68%
- Net Migration Rate: 7.5%
- Population divided into different genders / Sex Ratio in the following Age Groups at birth:
- 1.07 males per a female
- Under 15 years: 1.06 males per a female
- 15-64 years: 1.02 males per a female
- 65 years and over: 0.72 male per a female
- Ethnic groups: Italian. But exists some clusters of German, French, and Slovene. There are also few Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south
- Religions
- 90% belong to Roman
- 10% are Protestant or Jewish
- There are also very few Muslim immigrant
- Languages Spoken: Officially Italian (official); others include: German, French, Slovene