Italy - People

Age Structure: 
0-14 years: 13.6% (male 4,086,951/female 3,842,765)
15-64 years: 66.3% (male 19,534,247/female 19,024,776)
65 years and over: 20% (male 4,864,189/female 6,792,393) (2008 est.)

Median Age: 
total: 42.9 years
male: 41.4 years
female: 44.4 years (2008 est.)

Population Growth Rate: -0.019% (2008 est.)

Birth Rate: 8.36 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Death Rate: 10.61 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Net Migration rate: 2.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Sex Ratio: 
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2008 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate: 
total: 5.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.19 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.) 

Life Expectancy at birth: 
total population: 80.07 years
male: 77.13 years
female: 83.2 years (2008 est.)

Total Fertility Rate: 1.3 children born/woman (2008 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2001 est.) 

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2001 est.) 

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 est.) 

Nationality: 
noun: Italian(s) 
adjective: Italian 

Ethnic Groups: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) 

Religions: Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; about one-third practicing), other 10% (includes mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community)

Languages: Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)

Literacy: 
definition: age 15 and over can read and write 
total population: 98.4% 
male: 98.8% 
female: 98% (2001 census) 

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook August 2008.