Population — national citizens

In 2016, Italy's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 55,332,670.

Italy accounts for 13.4% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

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 0.9% (from 55,847,162 in 2011).

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