Homicide victims

In 2017, 357 persons were murdered in Italy (234 males and 123 females), equal to 0.59 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, with 0.79 homicides per 100,000 […]

Productivity statistics

Istat releases productivity statistics for the period 1995-2017. The productivity series are coherent with the results of the latest release of national accounts. The adopted […]

Notification of general government deficit and debt

In this release, Istat provides government deficit and debt data based on figures reported in the first 2018 notification by Italy to the EC for […]

Agritourism farms in Italy

The positive trend of the agritourism sector registered in the previous years continued in 2017, for both agritourisms and presences and for municipalities with agritourism […]

Innovation in enterprises

In 2014-2016, 47.8% of Italian enterprises with at least ten persons employed undertook innovation activity. As compared to the previous period 2012-2014, the propensity to […]

Annual national accounts

The National Institute of Statistics releases the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and General Government net borrowing in accordance with the definitions of the […]

Research and development

In 2016, in current price terms Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was nearly 23,2 billion euro. It increased by 4.6% compared […]

Resident population by marital status

At January 1st 2018 the resident population in Italy is equal to 60 million 484 thousand. The age structure has strongly aged: 13.4% of the […]

Citizens and cinema

In 2017, 49.6% of people aged 6 and over (about 28 million 400 thousand people) went to the cinema at least once in the last […]

Mental health at various stages of life

Depression is the most common mental disorder in Italian population. Over 2.8 million people suffered from chronic depression during the past 12 months (5.4% people […]