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70.4% of Italian population is classified as urban, [53] a relatively low figure among developed countries. Italy's administrative boundaries have seen significant devolution in recent decades; the metropolitan area was created as a new administrative unit, and major cities and metro areas now have a provincial status.
Principal component analysis of the Italian population with other populations. Due to historic demographic shifts in the Italian peninsula throughout history, its geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as Italy's regional ethnic diversity since ancient times, modern Italians are genetically diverse.
Pages in category "Demographics of Italy" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Italian National Institute of Statistics;
Today, the state of New York has the largest population of Italian-Americans, while Rhode Island and Connecticut have the highest overall percentages in relation to their respective populations. In contrast, most of the rest of the country (exceptions being South Florida and New Orleans) have fewer Italian-American concentrations.
The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000. The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3] Cities in bold are regional capitals.
In 2021, around 6,260,000 people residing in Italy have an immigration background (around the 10.6% of the total Italian population). [3] [4] [5] Starting from the early 1980s, until then a linguistically and culturally homogeneous society, Italy began to attract substantial flows of foreign immigrants.
A 2012 study by Di Gaetano et al. used 1,014 Italians with wide geographical coverage. It showed that the current population of Sardinia can be clearly differentiated genetically from mainland Italy and Sicily, and that a certain degree of genetic differentiation is detectable within the current Italian peninsula population.
Italian is widely spoken in Malta, where nearly two-thirds of the population can speak it fluently (see Maltese Italian). [83] Italian served as Malta's official language until 1934, when it was abolished by the British colonial administration amid strong local opposition.