Demographics
Italy has 60,626,442 inhabitants and is growing at a rate of 0.42% over the last year. It has a death 3.38 deaths/1,000 live births and a literacy rate of 98.4% and a overall life expectancy rate at 81.77 years.
It is currently going through a phase where the older population is becoming larger then what can be supported which has led to the Italian Government cutting retirement policies. Italy is also 90% predominantly Roman Catholic with the remaining 10% being mostly protestant. Italy's most populous city is Rome with a population of 2,761,477 inhabitants. The most populous region is Lombardy in the north of Italy with a population of 9.9 million inhabitants.