Research and development

In 2015, in current price terms Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was nearly 22,2 billion euro. It increased by 1.7% compared […]

Productivity Measures

Istat releases productivity statistics for the period 1995-2016. The productivity series are coherent with the results of the latest release of national accounts. The adopted […]

Balance sheets of local government

Istat presents the results of financial flow calculations on the final balance sheets of local government (municipalities, provinces and metropolitan cities) for fiscal year 2015. […]

Tourist flow in Italy

In 2016, nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments were around 403 million (+2.6% compared with the previous year) and arrivals were 117 million (+3.1%). About […]

General Government participations in Italy

In 2015, units owned by general government in Italy were 9,655 with a weight of 882,012 in terms of persons employed. Compared to the previous […]

Net borrowing and debt in the EDP Notification

In this release, Istat provides government deficit and debt data based on figures reported in the second 2017 notification by Italy to the EC for the […]

Sports practice in Italy

In 2015, over 20 million people aged 3 and over practiced one or more sports continuously (24.4%) or occasionally (9.8%). The rate of those who […]

Corruption in Italy

  For the first time, Istat has introduced a series of questions in its 2015-2016 survey on the Safety of citizens, in order to examine […]

Non-EU citizens in Italy

Non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy on 1st January 2017 were 3,714,137. The most relevant citizenships were: Morocco (454,817), Albania (441,838), China (318,975), […]

Agritourism farms in Italy

The positive trend of the agritourism sector registered in the previous years continued in 2016, for both agritourisms and presences and for municipalities with agritourism […]