Italy
HIMNO Y BANDERA DE ITALIA
Anthem of Italy.
Location:
Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia
Population:
59,685,227 people (2012)
Area:
116,347 sq km
Population Density:
200/sq km
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 13.8% (male 4,335,746/female 4,148,249)
15-24 years: 9.9% (male 3,059,140/female 3,035,991)
25-54 years: 43.2% (male 13,133,733/female 13,416,626)
55-64 years: 12.3% (male 3,675,324/female 3,913,918)
65 years and over: 20.8% (male 5,454,283/female 7,309,287) (2013 est.)
15-24 years: 9.9% (male 3,059,140/female 3,035,991)
25-54 years: 43.2% (male 13,133,733/female 13,416,626)
55-64 years: 12.3% (male 3,675,324/female 3,913,918)
65 years and over: 20.8% (male 5,454,283/female 7,309,287) (2013 est.)
Median Age:
total: 44.2 years
male: 43 years
female: 45.3 years (2013 est.)
male: 43 years
female: 45.3 years (2013 est.)
Birth Rate:
8.94 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Mortality Rate:
10.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Population Growth Rate:
0,34% (2013)
Sex Ratio:
1,06 male(s)/femele (2013)
Infant Mmortality:
3.33 deaths/1,000 live births
Life Expectancy:
81,95 years
Fertility Rate:
1,41 children born/woman (2013)
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99.2%
female: 98.7% (2011 est.)
total population: 99%
male: 99.2%
female: 98.7% (2011 est.)
Stage of the Demographic Transition Model:
In stage three, birth rates fall due to some social changes deriving from the industrialized economic syistem (families cannot afford to have many children, the acces to contraception, urbanization, an increase in the status and education of women...). The death rates continue dropping. Population growth is slow.