Population — national citizens

In 2022, Italy's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2021, reaching 53,999,417.

Italy accounts for 13.2% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 55,248,101 in 2017).

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