!!!Italy: People & Society ||Population|62,007,540 (July 2016 est.) ||Nationality|''noun'': Italian(s) \\ ''adjective'': Italian \\ ||Ethnic groups|Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) ||Languages|Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area) ||Religions|Christian 80% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim (about 800,000 to 1 million), atheist and agnostic 20% ||Age structure|''0-14 years'': 13.69% (male 4,337,792/female 4,151,901) \\ ''15-24 years'': 9.74% (male 3,026,359/female 3,012,882) \\ ''25-54 years'': 42.46% (male 13,003,171/female 13,326,901) \\ ''55-64 years'': 12.73% (male 3,826,630/female 4,069,855) \\ ''65 years and over'': 21.37% (male 5,696,612/female 7,555,437) (2016 est.) \\ ||Dependency ratios|''total dependency ratio'': 56.5% \\ ''youth dependency ratio'': 21.5% \\ ''elderly dependency ratio'': 35.1% \\ ''potential support ratio'': 2.9% (2015 est.) \\ ||Median age|''total'': 45.1 years \\ ''male'': 44 years \\ ''female'': 46.2 years (2016 est.) \\ ||Population growth rate|0.23% (2016 est.) ||Birth rate|8.7 births/1,000 population (2016 est.) ||Death rate|10.3 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.) ||Net migration rate|3.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.) ||Population distribution|despite a distinctive pattern with an industrial north and an agrarian south, a fairly even population distribution exists throughout most of the country, with coastal areas, the Po River Valley, and urban centers (particularly Milan, Rome, and Naples), attracting larger and denser populations ||Urbanization|''urban population'': 69% of total population (2015) \\ ''rate of urbanization'': 0.39% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) \\ ||Major urban areas - population|ROME (capital) 3.718 million; Milan 3.099 million; Naples 2.202 million; Turin 1.765 million; Palermo 853,000; Bergamo 840,000 (2015) ||Sex ratio|''at birth'': 1.06 male(s)/female \\ ''0-14 years'': 1.04 male(s)/female \\ ''15-24 years'': 1 male(s)/female \\ ''25-54 years'': 0.98 male(s)/female \\ ''55-64 years'': 0.94 male(s)/female \\ ''65 years and over'': 0.75 male(s)/female \\ ''total population'': 0.93 male(s)/female (2016 est.) \\ ||Mother's mean age at first birth|30.3 (2011 est.) ||Maternal mortality rate|4 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) ||Infant mortality rate|''total'': 3.3 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''male'': 3.5 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''female'': 3.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) \\ ||Life expectancy at birth|''total population'': 82.2 years \\ ''male'': 79.6 years \\ ''female'': 85 years (2016 est.) \\ ||Total fertility rate|1.43 children born/woman (2016 est.) ||Health expenditures|9.2% of GDP (2014) ||Physicians density|3.76 physicians/1,000 population (2012) ||Hospital bed density|3.4 beds/1,000 population (2011) ||Drinking water source|''improved'': \\ urban: 100% of population \\ rural: 100% of population \\ total: 100% of population \\ ''unimproved'': \\ urban: 0% of population \\ rural: 0% of population \\ total: 0% of population (2015 est.) \\ ||Sanitation facility access|''improved'': \\ urban: 99.5% of population \\ rural: 99.6% of population \\ total: 99.5% of population \\ ''unimproved'': \\ urban: 0.5% of population \\ rural: 0.4% of population \\ total: 0.5% of population (2015 est.) \\ ||HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate|0.37% (2015 est.) ||HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS|136,800 (2015 est.) ||HIV/AIDS - deaths|700 (2015 est.) ||Obesity - adult prevalence rate|23.7% (2014) ||Education expenditures|4.2% of GDP (2013) ||Literacy|''definition'': age 15 and over can read and write \\ ''total population'': 99.2% \\ ''male'': 99.4% \\ ''female'': 99% (2015 est.) \\ ||School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)|''total'': 16 years \\ ''male'': 16 years \\ ''female'': 17 years (2013) \\ ||Unemployment, youth ages 15-24|''total'': 42.7% \\ ''male'': 41.3% \\ ''female'': 44.7% (2014 est.) \\