Population (total, 1 January)

In 2006, Italy's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.4% compared to 2005, reaching 58,288,996.

Italy ranks 2nd out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.3% (from 56,960,692 in 2001).

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