Population — national citizens

In 2004, Italy's population increased by 0.0% compared to 2003, reaching 55,718,063.

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 0.1% (from 55,792,715 in 1999).

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