Population — national citizens

In 2012, Italy's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2011, reaching 55,785,984.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 26 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 55,818,703 in 2007).

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