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Population: 58,147,733 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 13.8% (male 4,121,246/female 3,874,971) 15-64 years: 66.4% (male 19,527,203/female 19,059,897) 65 years and over: 19.9% (male 4,823,244/female 6,741,172) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 0.01% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 8.54 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 10.5 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.064 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.025 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.715 male(s)/female total population: 0.959 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 5.72 deaths/1,000 live births male: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.94 years male: 77.01 years female: 83.07 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.29 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 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: Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; about one-third regularly attend services), other 10% (includes 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: 98.4% male: 98.8% female: 98% (2001 census).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.756 trillion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 1.9% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $30,200 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry: 29.1% services: 69% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 24.63 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 5% industry: 32% services: 63% (2001).

Population below poverty line: NA%.

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.1% highest 10%: 26.6% (2000).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 7% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $832.9 billion expenditures: $925 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef, dairy products; fish.

Industries: tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics.

Industrial production growth rate: 1.5% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 277.6 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 303.8 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 800 million kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 46.4 billion kWh (2004).

Exports: $450.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals, and nonferrous metals.

Exports - partners: Germany 13.2%, France 12.3%, US 8%, Spain 7.5%, UK 6.6% (2005).

Imports: $445.6 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages, and tobacco.

Imports - partners: Germany 17.4%, France 10%, Netherlands 5.7%, China 4.6%, Belgium 4.5%, Spain 4.3%, UK 4% (2005).

Debt - external: $1.957 trillion (30 June 2006 est.).

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1 billion (2002 est.).

Currency (code): euro (EUR) note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries.

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.