Population: Italy

## What this measures

The total population of Italy on 1 July of each year, 1950 to 2023, as estimated by the UN World Population Prospects 2024.

## Why it matters

Population sets the size of every market, labour force and tax base, and its growth is the slowest-moving and most predictable force in an economy.

## How to read it

Each point is the mid-year population, dated July 1. These are estimates through 2023; the UN's projection from 2024 on is a separate series (the same name with "projection"), so this line never mixes measured and projected years.

## What it does not say

It counts people living in the place, whatever their citizenship. Estimates for years without a recent census rest on models and are revised with each WPP revision.

## Source

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.