Italy Population
The total number of people living in the economy at mid-year, from the World Bank's estimates (everyone counted, whatever their legal status or citizenship).
58.9m
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1960 to 2025
Source: World Bank · Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), mid-year estimates, annual.
Italy Population in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Italy, the population fell by 37k in 2025, from 59m in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 2007.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 58.9m in 2025 to 59.4m in 2020.
Italy is 20th of 61 countries in our Population by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- people
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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