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  • Population......................................................................58,103,033 (July 2005 est.)
  • Population growth rate ..............................................................0.07% (2005 est.)
  • Birth rate......................................................8.89 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Death rate..................................................10.3 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................2.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 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.

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Data
Check out Italian International Migration Data in the Global Data Center

Neighboring Countries

France
Switzerland
Austria
Albania
Slovenia
Monaco
Holy See (Vatican City)
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia and Montenegro
Malta
San Marino
Tunisia

Other Resources

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.esteri.gov.it/eng/

Italy National Statistical Institute
http://www.istat.it

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

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