Research and development

In 2014, in current price terms Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was nearly 22,3 billion euro. It increased by 6.2% compared […]

Marriages, separations and divorces

In 2015, there were 194,377 marriages in Italy, about 4,600 more than 2014. It was the most consistent increase since 2008. In the period 2008-2014, […]

Innovation in Italian enterprises

In 2012-2014, 44.6% of Italian enterprises with at least ten persons employed undertook innovation activity. As compared to the previous period 2008-2010, the propensity to […]

Public offer of nurseries

Istat presents for the first time the results of the Census of public and private units that provide socio-educational services for early childhood. The study […]

Productivity statistics

Istat releases productivity statistics for the period 1995-2015. The productivity series are coherent with the results of the latest release of national accounts. Labour productivity […]

Economic performances of Italian enterprises

Istat publishes for the first time the economic results of enterprises in industrial and service sectors together with those from enterprises groups for the year […]

Notification of general government deficit

In this release, Istat provides government deficit and debt data based on figures reported in the second 2016 notification by Italy to the EC for the […]

Agritourism farms in Italy

In 2015, there were 22,238 agritourism farms (agritourism farms licensed to provide accomodation), 494 more than the previous year (+2.3%). During 2015, new farms licensed […]

Non-EU citizens in Italy

The non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy on 1st January 2016 were 3,931,133. The most relevant citizenships were: Morocco (510,450), Albania (482,959), China […]

Careers for secondary and university graduates

The estimate of high school graduates who obtained the diploma in 2011 and were working in 2015 is 43.5% (45.7% in 2011 for the 2007 […]