Italy - People

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.)

Median Age: 
total: 42.5 years
male: 41.1 years
female: 44.1 years (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: approximately 90% Roman Catholic (about one-third regularly attend services); 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: 98.6% 
male: 99% 
female: 98.3% (2003 est.) 

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook January 2008.