Italy: People & Society#
| Population | 62,007,540 (July 2016 est.) |
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| 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.) |