Population — national citizens

In 2008, Italy's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2007, reaching 55,850,216.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.3% (from 55,703,101 in 2003).

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