Italy 
Facts
Population:
57,679,825 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
14.17% (male 4,209,102; female 3,964,765)
15-64 years:
67.48% (male 19,375,742; female 19,546,332)
65 years and over:
18.35% (male 4,368,264; female 6,215,620) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.07% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
9.05 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.07 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.73 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.7 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.84 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
79.14 years
male:
75.97 years
female:
82.52 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.18 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.35% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
95,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
1,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Italian(s)
adjective:
Italian
Ethnic groups:
Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Religions:
predominately Roman Catholic with mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community
Languages:
Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98% (1998)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $1.273 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.7% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $22,100 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
2.5%
industry:
30.4%
services:
67.1% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.5%
highest 10%:
21.8% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2000)
Labor force:
23.4 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 61.9%, industry 32.6%, agriculture 5.5% (1999)
Unemployment rate:
10.4% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$488 billion
expenditures:
$501 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics
Industrial production growth rate:
1.9% (2000)
Electricity - production:
247.679 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
79.09%
hydro:
18.08%
nuclear:
0%
other:
2.83% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
272.35 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
530 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
42.539 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef, dairy products; fish
Exports:
$241.1 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals and nonferrous metals
Exports - partners:
EU 56.8% (Germany 16.4%, France 12.9%, Netherlands 7.1%, Spain 6.3%, Netherlands 2.9%), US 9.5% (1999)
Imports:
$231.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages and tobacco
Imports - partners:
EU 61% (Germany 19.3%, France 12.6%, Netherlands 6.3%, Spain 4.4%), US 5.0% (1999)
Debt - external:
$NA
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.3 billion (1997)
Currency:
Italian lira (ITL); euro (EUR)
note:
on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in Italy at a fixed rate of 1,936.27 Italian lire per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:
ITL; EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Italian lire per US dollar - 1,688.7 (January 1999), 1,736.2 (1998), 1,703.1 (1997), 1,542.9 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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