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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http://www.altoadige.it/
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http://www.aostaoggi.it/
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http://www.avvenire.it/
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(Business and lifestyle monthly), Milan
(communist/advocacy), Rome
http://www.carta.org
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http://www.corriere.it/
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A crime war is pitting major gangs against one another in a fight to gain control of Naples' criminal activities. Everyone here knows it as the Camorra, or the local Mafia.
The reporter, Giuliana Sgrena, was abducted Feb. 4 in Baghdad while interviewing refugees from Falluja at the Al Mustafa mosque. By Flávio Américo dos Reis.
Analysis indicates Iraq policy has cost British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi heavily at the ballot box.
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