Italy

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PROFILE
  • Area: 301,340 sq. km (116,348 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 62,007,540 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.23% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 82.2 years (2016)
  • Languages: Italian (official), German, French, Slovene
  • Religions: Christian 80% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim (about 800,000 to 1 million), atheist and agnostic 20%
  • Formal name: Italian Republic
  • Alternate names: Italia, Italian Republic, Italie, Italien, Repubblica Italiana, Republic of Italy
  • Government type: parliamentary republic
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Sergio MATTARELLA; head of government: Prime Minister Paolo GENTILONI
  • Capital: Rome
  • Administrative divisions: 15 regions and 5 autonomous regions
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $35,700 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco; minerals, nonferrous metals
  • Imports: engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages, tobacco
  • Currency: euro (EUR)
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