Indicator	Value
Total population	59,000,000–59,300,000 peopleUN DESA WPP [2024] 59,340,000 people·World Bank WDI [2024] 58,950,000 people
Median age	47.8 yearsUN DESA WPP [2024]
Life expectancy	83.7–84 yearsWorld Bank WDI [2024] 83.95 years·UNDP HDI [2023] 83.72 years
Ethnic groups	Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north, Albanian-Italians, Croat-Italians, and Greek-Italians in the south)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
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), Croatian (in Molise)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Religions	Christian 80.8% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim 4.9%, unaffiliated 13.4%, other 0.9% (2020 est.)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Urbanization	72% of total population (2023)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Population growth	-0.0534 %World Bank WDI [2024]
Birth rate	6.3 per 1,000World Bank WDI [2024]
Death rate	11 per 1,000World Bank WDI [2024]
Urban population	69.6 %World Bank WDI [2024]
Languages (structured)	Ancient Ligurian Arbëreshë Albanian Arpitan Balkan Romani Bavarian Campidanese Sardinian Camunic Catalan Central Alemannic Central Romani Cimbrian Cisalpine Gaulish Continental Southern Italian Corsican Elymian Emiliano Etruscan Faeto and Celle San Vito Francoprovencal Faliscan French Friulian Gallurese Sardinian Gardiol German International Sign Italian Italian Sign Language Judeo-Italian Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic Ladin Ligurian Logudorese Sardinian Lombard Messapic Modern Greek Mòcheno Occitan Old Latin Old Sabellic Oscan Piemontese Raetic Romagnol Romansh Sassarese Sardinian Sicana Sicilian Sicula Sinte-Manus Romani Slavomolisano Slovenian Umbrian Venetian Venetic Vlax Romani Walser Glottolog [2026]