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Italians ( Italian: italiani, Italian: [itaˈljaːni]) are a nation and ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region. [47] Italians share a common core of culture, history, ancestry, and often the usage of Italian language or regional Italian languages .
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Those born during the World wars are marked in dark. Demographic features of the population of Italy include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects. At the beginning of 2022, Italy had an estimated population of 58.9 million.
- 6.7 births/1,000 population (2022)
- -0.54% (2022)
- 12.1 deaths/1,000 population (2022)
- 58,784,069 (30 June 2023)
Oct 12, 2019 · The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized pariah status in the 19th century to white Americans in good standing in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is ...
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 ...
- Mortality
- Marriage and Fertility
- International Migration
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
Here, we characterize the ancestry profiles of Italian populations using a genome-wide dataset representative of modern and ancient samples from across Italy, Europe, and the rest of the world. Italian genomes capture several ancient signatures, including a non–steppe contribution derived ultimately from the Caucasus.
May 22, 2020 · This amazing diversity started to accumulate soon after the Late Glacial Maximum, which ended approximately 19,000 years ago. This is what researchers of the University of Bologna have reported in ...
