World population/Italy
Europe
Population of Italy
58,926,166
Growing by -0.01 people every second
#25
world rank
0.71%
of world population
-0.40%
yearly change
-237,387
people this year
379,621
births a year
669,401
deaths a year
How the figure for Italy is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Italy at 58,926,166 on 1 July 2026, and projects 58,688,779 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people lost every second.
That places Italy at number 25 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.71 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 379,621 births and 669,401 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.