Environmental protection investments

In 2014 investments for environmental protection of industrial companies decreased for the second year in a row, with a decline of 19.7 % compared to […]

Quality agro-food products

Italy confirmed its position as the country with the highest number of PDO, PGI and TSG certifications granted by the European Union. At 31 December […]

Regional Accounts

Istat disseminates Regional accounts data (Nuts2 and Nuts3) consistent with national estimates published in September 2016. In 2015, GDP per capita amounted to 33,400 euros […]

Income and living conditions

In 2015, 28.7% of the Italian resident population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion, in accordance with the definition adopted for the Europe […]

International and internal migration

During 2015, the number of people immigrated to Italy was about 280,000, substantially unchanged compared to 2014. The immigrants with a foreign citizenships were the […]

Multinational enterprises

In 2014, there were 13,569  foreign affiliates resident in Italy. These enterprises employed 1,2 million  persons, generated a turnover of 524 billion  euros and a […]

Birth and fertility

In 2015, 485,780 births were registered in the Resident Population Register, that is almost 17,000 fewer births than in 2014. The figures confirm the downward […]

The Daily Life

The Time Use Survey measures the amount of time people spend performing various daily activities on an average day of the year. In 2014 the […]

Urban environment

The orientation of city governments to sustainable management and to implement “smart city” policies is described by grouping the response indicators related to eight environmental […]

Citizens’ satisfaction

After five years, in 2016 the percentage of population that were highly satisfied with their life (answering 8, 9 or 10) grew: from 35.1% to […]