Municipalities' expenditure for social services

The statistical measurement of the resources used for social services by the Municipalities, individually or in an associated form, confirms, also in 2015, the tendency […]

Public offer of nurseries

In the educational year 2014/15, 13,262 units were registered on the national territory, offering socio-educational services for early childhood, 36% were public and 64% private. […]

International and internal migration

During 2016, the international net migration grew by more than 10,000, reaching 144,000 (+8% compared to 2015). The immigration flow was equal to nearly 301,000 […]

National demographic balance

As of December 31, 2016 Italy had 60,589,445 inhabitants, more than 5 million of whom had foreign citizenship: 8.3% at national level, 10.6% in Central-northern […]

Residence permits for political asylum

In 2015, according to data from Eurostat, the number of persons who applied for political asylum in a European country has more than doubled compared […]

International and internal migration

During 2015, the number of people immigrated to Italy was about 280,000, substantially unchanged compared to 2014. The immigrants with a foreign citizenships were the […]

Public offer of nurseries

Istat presents for the first time the results of the Census of public and private units that provide socio-educational services for early childhood. The study […]

Demographic indicators

In 2015 the resident population decreased by 2.3 per thousand inhabitants. The reduction corresponds to 139,000 units less, resulting in a total population of 60 […]

International and internal migration

During 2014, 278,000 people immigrated to Italy, compared to the 307,000 people who immigrated during the previous year (-9.7%). 89.5% of all immigrants were foreign […]

National demographic balance

As of December 31, 2014 Italy had 60,795,612 inhabitants, of which more than 5 million have foreign citizenship (8.2%). During 2014 the number of residents […]