Population growth rate ..............................................................-0.019% (2008 est.)
Birth rate......................................................8.36 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Death rate..................................................10.61 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Net migration rate...............................2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Ethnic groups..........Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Member of what is now the European Union since 1952.
Italy's
Southern Exposure Italy has struggled to find the right tone and approach
toward immigration. In this newly updated profile, Managing
Editor Kim Hamilton tackles the dilemmas facing Italian policymakers
today.
Check
out Italian International Migration Data in the Global
Data Center
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