Population — national citizens

In 2019, Italy's population decreased by 0.4% compared to 2018, reaching 54,820,515.

Italy accounts for 13.3% of the EU-27 total of 411,073,307.

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 1.3% (from 55,558,751 in 2014).

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