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Due to historic demographic shifts in the Italian peninsula throughout history, its geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as Italy's regional ethnic diversity since ancient times, modern Italians are genetically diverse.
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The losses of WWII were significant for the Italian population (about 380,000 people died and among them three out of four were soldiers). The mortality rate, which was quite high at the end of the war (20.5 per thousands), started to decrease in the early 1950s. Since then, it has been quite stable: about 9 per thousands (Table 22.1). In the post-...
In the first period after WWII, the number of marriages and the birth rate increased rapidly in Italy. At the beginning of the 1950s the total fertility rate (TFR) was 2.5 children per woman, and it increased during the so-called “baby boom” period of the 1960s. It reached its maximum in 1967, when a rate of 2.7 children per woman was recorded (Bal...
Italy has been transformed in recent decades from a pool of labor suppliers to a target country for mass immigration. In the aftermath of the oil crises of 1973, northern European countries, the main destinations of international immigration in Europe during the first post-War II decades, adopted restrictive immigration policies. Labour migration w...
- Elena Ambrosetti, Eralba Cela
- 2015
May 22, 2020 · If compared to individuals from southern Italy, Italians from the north present a close genetic relation to human remains attributed to ancient European cultures such as the Magdalenian and...
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Multiple DNA studies confirmed that genetic variation in Italy is clinal, going from the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean. The Sardinians are the exception as genetic outliers in Italy and indeed in Europe, resulting from their predominantly Neolithic, Pre-Indo-European and non-Italic Nuragic ancestry.
Italy does not collect data on ethnicity or race of the country, but does collect data on nationality of its residents. In 2021, Istat estimated that 5,171,894 foreign citizens lived in Italy, representing about 8.7% of the total population.
- 6.7 births/1,000 population (2022)
- -0.54% (2022)
- 12.1 deaths/1,000 population (2022)
- 58,784,069 (30 June 2023)
Apr 26, 2024 · Demographics of Italy - Statistics & Facts. In 2024, the total resident population of Italy amounts to 58.99 million, a decrease of around 650,000 people in the last four years. The largest number ...
Both anti-semitic and anti-black policies – in 1938 the regime also took a census of people with African background living in Italy and expelled them (Gabrielli 1999) – aimed to make Italy a ‘racially pure’ nation. As a way of defining a radical difference between humans, race was not, however, an invention of Fascism.
