Tourism accomodation capacity and occupancy

The National Institute of Statistics releases statistics on the capacity and occupancy of tourist accommodation establishments for the year 2013.The “Capacity of tourist accommodation establishments” […]

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2012, were 11,571, with 372,962 beds (6.2 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

Urban environment

In terms of innovative ecofriendly urban planning tools, on 31 December 2013 81 of 116 provincial capitals have joined the Covenant of Mayors (committing to […]

International and internal migration

During 2013, 307,000 people immigrated to Italy, compared to 351,000 people who immigrated during the previous year. The decline in immigration was mainly due to […]

Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding in Italy

Pregnant women in Italy have access to good health care services. Istat survey on Health Conditions and Use of Health Services estimates that in 2013 […]

Pensions and pensioners

In 2013 total pension expenditure reached 272,746 million euro, registering an increase by 0.7% compared to 2012. Its incidence rate on Gdp grew by 0.22 […]

Research and development in Italy

In 2012, in current price terms, Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was 20.5 billion euro. It increased by 3.5% compared to […]

Innovation in Italian enterprises

Istat presents the results of the latest Innovation survey in the Italian enterprises. The survey covers innovation activities of the enterprises with at least ten […]

Turnover in services

The Services Turnover Index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

Leading causes of death in Italy

In 2012 there were 613,520 deaths in Italy and the age-standardized mortality rate was 92.2 per 10,000 residents. From 2007 through 2012 the age-standardized rate […]