Population — national citizens

In 2020, Italy's population decreased by 0.4% compared to 2019, reaching 54,601,851.

Italy accounts for 13.3% of the EU-27 total of 410,499,424.

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 1.5% (from 55,460,252 in 2015).

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