Poverty in Italy

Absolute poverty In 2017, the incidence of absolute poverty was 6.9% in terms of residing households (1 million and 778 thousand households) and 8.4% in […]

Safety perception

The Italian “Citizens Safety” survey provides a complex framework of indicators about the fear of crime, worries of crime and their consequences on the quality […]

Temperature and precipitation

In recent decades the interest for climate variability and extreme climate events has increased. The assessment of meteo-climatic impacts on environment, human health, socio-economic and […]

Household consumptions

In 2017, the average monthly household consumption expenditure, at current values, was 2,564 euros (+1.6% compared to 2016 and +3.8% compared to 2013, the year […]

National demographic balance

As of December 31st, 2017 Italy had 60,483,973 inhabitants, more than 5 million of which had foreign citizenship: 8.5% at national level(10.7 % in Central-northern […]

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2015, were 12,828, with 390,689 beds (6.4 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

The economic performance of agriculture in Italy

In 2016 the gross value added of the agricultural sector at current prices was 31,6 billion euro, 2.1% of the national value added. Compared to […]

The demographic future of the Country

According to the median scenario, the resident population for Italy is estimated to be 59 million in 2045 and 54.1 million in 2065. The decrease […]

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 […]

The integration of disabled students in public and private primary and lower secondary schools

Istat released the results of the survey on students with disabilities in primary and lower secondary schools (public and private) for the 2016-2017 school year. […]