Population: 58,138,394 (July 1994 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.21% (1994 est.)

Birth rate: 10.79 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Death rate: 9.71 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Net migration rate: 1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 7.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.64 years
male: 74.44 years
female: 81.04 years (1994 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.39 children born/woman (1994 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Italian(s)
adjective: Italian

Ethnic divisions: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south), Sicilians, Sardinians

Religions: Roman Catholic 98%, other 2%

Languages: Italian, 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)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 97%
male: 98%
female: 96%
Labor force: 23.988 million
by occupation: services 58%, industry 32.2%, agriculture 9.8% (1988)

NOTE: The information regarding Italy on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Italy People 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Italy People 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.