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 […]

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 […]