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![]() ![]() Italy People 1999
Population: 56,735,130 (July 1999 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: -0.08% (1999 est.) Birth rate: 9.27 births/1,000 population (1999 est.) Death rate: 10.28 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.) Net migration rate: 0.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)
Sex ratio:
Infant mortality rate: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 1.22 children born/woman (1999 est.)
Nationality:
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 98%, other 2% Languages: Italian, 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:
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