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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY: ITALY

The People of Italy Population: 62,137,802

Ethnic groups: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) Age structure:

0–14 years 13.65% 15–64 years 64.82% 65 years and above 21.53%

Population grown rate: 0.19% Birth rate: 8.6 births/1,000 pop. Death rate: 10.4 deaths/1,000 pop. Migration rate: 3.7 migrants/1,000 pop. Infant mortality rate: 3.3 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at birth: Total population : 79.4 years Male: 79.6 years Female: 85.1 years (2017 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.44 children born/woman 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% Languages: Italian, German, French, Slovene Literacy rate: 99.2%

Source: www.cia.gov 2017

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