Population — national citizens

In 2013, Italy's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2012, reaching 55,666,816.

Italy ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.3% (from 55,850,216 in 2008).

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