Population — national citizens

In 2023, Italy's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2022, reaching 53,855,860.

Italy accounts for 13.2% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 2.2% (from 55,054,318 in 2018).

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