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Italy

58,915,656

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-37.05K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+3.5%from 56.94M
Life expectancy84.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.18births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.7%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Italy is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1411.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+25.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate6.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate11.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-4.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+75.45Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Italy look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 51.89M in 2050—12.6% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202459.34M
  2. 205051.89M
  3. 210035.38M
Median age in 205052.9years
Births in 2050341.85Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050774.36Kduring the year
Life expectancy87.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196050.2M
  2. 197053.82M
  3. 198056.43M
  4. 199056.72M
  5. 200056.94M
  6. 201059.82M
  7. 202059.44M
  8. 202558.92M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/20/2026

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