Population — national citizens

In 2018, Italy's population decreased by 0.4% compared to 2017, reaching 55,054,318.

Italy accounts for 13.4% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

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 1.1% (from 55,666,816 in 2013).

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