Population — national citizens

In 2003, Italy's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2002, reaching 55,703,101.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.4% (from 55,912,701 in 1998).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.