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 […]

Multinational enterprises

In 2015, there were 14,007 foreign affiliates resident in Italy. These enterprises employed 1.3 million  persons, generated a turnover of 530 billion  euros and a […]

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 […]

Birth and fertility

In 2016, 473,438 births were registered in the Resident Population Register, that is almost 12,000 fewer births than in 2015. The figures confirmed the downward […]

New entrepreneurs and high growth enterprises

The expansion of the social, economic and statistical information is carried out from the integration of multiple administrative and statistical sources. This allows to define […]

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 […]