Books production and reading

The Italian publishing sector is very peculiar: over half of the active operators (54.8%) are “small” publishers, who publish no more than 10 titles per […]

Italian language, dialects and other languages

In 2015, 45.9% of people aged six years and over (about 26 million and 300 thousand individuals) used to speak more frequently in Italian at […]

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 […]

Citizens, enterprises and ICT

The integrated information framework on the use of ICT technologies by citizens and enterprises shows an increasingly widespread and advanced use of these technologies in […]

Road accidents - preliminary estimates

During the first semester of 2017, the preliminary estimates data showed a reduction of both road accidents resulting in death or injury and injured persons, […]

Regional Accounts

Istat disseminates Regional accounts (Nuts2 and Nuts3) consistent with the National accounts published in September 2017. In 2016, GDP per capita was 34,200 euros in […]

Enterprises and environment

In 2015 the environmental protection expenditure for industry was 1,405 million of euros of which 979 million of euros were investments in equipment and plant […]

Water census

The volume of water abstracted for drinking use amounted to 9.5 billion cubic meters in 2015, broadly stable compared to 2012 (+0.3%) 84.3% of the […]

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. […]

Income, living conditions and fiscal burden

The results of Eu-Silc 2016 Italian survey showed on one side a relevant and widespread growth of the 2015 total household income at current and […]