Italy Demographics Population Religion Percentage 2017 by City Immigrants
Europe, Italy, World Population August 10, 2017,
Italy Demographics Population Religion Percentage 2017 
Italy has 60,656,000 inhabitants according to the calculations current as of January 1, 2017 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. The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley (that accounts for almost half of the national population) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Apennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated. The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s. In addition, after centuries of net emigration, from the 1980s Italy has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history. According to the Italian government, there were an estimated 5,000,073 foreign nationals resident in Italy.
Italy demographics Population by Religion
|
Religions in Italy |
|
Christianity (83.3%) |
|
No religion (12.4%) |
|
Islam (3.7%) |
|
Buddhism (0.2%) |
|
Hinduism (0.1%) |
|
Other religions (0.3%) |
Italy demographics Population by Immigrants
|
Immigration to Italy |
|
Europe (50.8%) |
|
Africa (22.1%) |
|
Asia (18.8%) |
|
America (8.3%) |
|
Oceania (0.1%) |
Italy demographics Population by Race
|
Rank |
Ethnicity or Nationality |
Share of Italian Population |
|
1 |
Italian |
92.00% |
|
2 |
Romanian |
1.80% |
|
3 |
Maghrebi and/or Arabic |
1.10% |
|
4 |
Albanian |
0.80% |
|
5 |
Han Chinese |
0.30% |
|
6 |
Ukrainian |
0.30% |
Italy Population by City
.
|
Rank |
City |
Population |
|
1 |
Roma (Rome) |
2,648,843 |
|
2 |
Milano (Milan) |
1,305,591 |
|
3 |
Napoli (Naples) |
1,046,987 |
|
4 |
Torino (Turin) |
921,485 |
|
5 |
Palermo |
689,349 |
|
6 |
Genova (Genoa) |
655,704 |
|
7 |
Bologna |
385,813 |
|
8 |
Firenze (Florence) |
381,762 |
|
9 |
Catania |
341,685 |
|
10 |
Bari |
335,647 |
|
11 |
Venezia (Venice) |
297,743 |
|
12 |
Messina |
262,524 |
|
13 |
Verona |
254,146 |
|
14 |
Trieste |
222,589 |
|
15 |
Padova (Padua) |
213,072 |
|
16 |
Taranto |
212,381 |
|
17 |
Brescia |
190,059 |
|
18 |
Reggio di Calabria |
179,829 |
|
19 |
Modena |
174,686 |
|
20 |
Cagliari |
173,564 |
|
21 |
Prato |
168,683 |
|
22 |
Parma |
167,685 |
|
23 |
Livorno (Leghorn) |
164,371 |
|
24 |
Foggia |
156,327 |
|
25 |
Perugia |
152,379 |
|
26 |
Salerno |
143,580 |
|
27 |
Ravenna |
137,129 |
|
28 |
Ferrara |
134,703 |
|
29 |
Rimini |
129,720 |
|
30 |
Siracusa (Syracuse) |
127,345 |
|
31 |
Sassari |
121,455 |
|
32 |
Monza |
119,420 |
|
33 |
Pescara |
118,473 |
|
34 |
Bergamo |
117,096 |
|
35 |
Latina |
111,047 |
|
36 |
Terni |
108,521 |
|
37 |
Vicenza |
108,041 |
|
38 |
Forli |
107,909 |
|
39 |
Trento (Trent) |
103,269 |
|
40 |
Novara |
102,327 |
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