Population — national citizens

In 2005, Italy's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2004, reaching 55,775,350.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.2% (from 55,652,971 in 2000).

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