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Population: 58,147,733 (July 2007 est.)
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 13.8% (male 4,121,246/female 3,874,971)
15-64 years: 66.4% (male 19,527,203/female 19,059,897)
65 years and over: 19.9% (male 4,823,244/female 6,741,172) (2007 est.)
Median Age:
total: 42.5 years
male: 41.1 years
female: 44.1 years (2007 est.)
Population Growth Rate: 0.01% (2007 est.)
Birth Rate: 8.54 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Death Rate: 10.5 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Net Migration rate: 2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Sex Ratio:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.064 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.025 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.715 male(s)/female
total population: 0.959 male(s)/female (2007 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate:
total: 5.72 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)
Life Expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.94 years
male: 77.01 years
female: 83.07 years (2007 est.)
Total Fertility Rate: 1.29 children born/woman (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Italian(s)
adjective: Italian
Ethnic Groups: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Religions: approximately 90% Roman Catholic (about one-third regularly attend services); mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community
Languages: Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.6%
male: 99%
female: 98.3% (2003 est.)
This information comes from the CIA
World Factbook January 2008.
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