Italy--People

CIA FactbookThe World Factbook 1993: Italy People

Population: 58,018,540 (July 1993 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.2% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 10.65 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate: 9.66 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Net migration rate: 1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 7.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.43 years male: 74.22 years female: 80.85 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.37 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Nationality: noun: Italian(s) adjective: Italian

Ethnic divisions: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south), Sicilians, Sardinians

Religions: Roman Catholic 100%

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: age 15 and over can read and write (1990) total population: 97% male: 98% female: 96%

Labor force: 23.988 million

by occupation: services 58%, industry 32.2%, agriculture 9.8% (1988)