Population — national citizens

In 2014, Italy's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2013, reaching 55,558,751.

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 0.5% (from 55,861,739 in 2009).

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