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ITALY

GEOGRAPHY

Area

Total: 301,340 sq km

Land: 294,140 sq km

Water: 7,200 sq km

Climate

predominantly Mediterranean; alpine in far

north; hot, dry in south

Natural Resources

coal, antimony, mercury, zinc, potash, marble,

barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar,

pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil

reserves, fish, arable land

GOVERNMENT

Chief of State

President Sergio MATTARELLA

Head of Government

Prime Minister Giuseppe CONTE

Government Type

parliamentary republic

Capital

Rome

Legislature

bicameral Parliament or Parlamento consists

of the Senate or Senato della Repubblica (321

seats) and the Chamber of Deputies or

Camera dei Deputati (630 seats)

Judiciary

Supreme Court of Cassation or Corte Suprema

di Cassazione (consists of the first president

(chief justice), deputy president, 54 justices

presiding over 6 civil and 7 criminal divisions,

and 288 judges)

Ambassador to US

Ambassador Armando VARRICCHIO

US Ambassador

Ambassador Lewis EISENBERG

PEOPLE & SOCIETY

Population

62.4 million (July 2020 est.)

Population Growth

0.11% (2020 est.) Ethnicity

Italian (small clusters of

German-, French-, and

Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-

Italians in the south)

Language

Italian (official), German, French, Slovene

Religion Christian 83.3% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small

groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim 3.7%,

unaffiliated 12.4%, other 0.6%

Urbanization

urban population: 71% of total population (2020)

rate of urbanization: 0.29% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

Literacy

99.2% (2018)

ECONOMY

Economic Overview

developed industrial north manufactures high-quality consumer

goods; less-developed agricultural south with high unemployment

and underdevelopment; challenged by exceptionally high public

debt, dissent on eurozone membership, a sluggish judicial system,

and a weak banking sector

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

$2.317 trillion (2017 est.)

GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity)

$38,200 (2017 est.)

Exports

$496.3 billion (2017 est.)

partners: Germany 12.5%, France 10.3%, US 9%, Spain 5.2%,

UK 5.2%, Switzerland 4.6% (2017)

Imports

$432.9 billion (2017 est.)

partners: Germany 16.3%, France 8.8%, China 7.1%,

Netherlands 5.6%, Spain 5.3%, Belgium 4.5% (2017)

as of April 2020