Population — national citizens

In 2021, Italy's population decreased by 1.0% compared to 2020, reaching 54,064,319.

Italy accounts for 13.2% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 2.3% (from 55,332,670 in 2016).

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