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Italy
National
name:
Repubblica Italiana
Languages: Italian
(official); German-, French-, and Slovene-speaking
minorities
Ethnicity/race: Italian
(includes small clusters of German-, French-, and
Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian- and
Greek-Italians in the south)
Religions: Roman
Catholic approx. 90%, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic
National Holiday:
Republic Day, June 2
Literacy
rate:
99% (2003 est.)
Economic
summary:
GDP/PPP (2009 est.): $1.76 trillion; per capita
$30,300. Real growth rate: –4.8%. Inflation:
0.6%. Unemployment: 7.5%. Arable land:
26%. Agriculture: fruits, vegetables, grapes,
potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef,
dairy products; fish. Labor force: 24.86 million;
services 63%, industry 32%, agriculture 5% (2001).
Industries: tourism, machinery, iron and steel,
chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles,
clothing, footwear, ceramics. Natural resources:
coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos,
pumice, fluorospar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural
gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land.
Exports: $369 billion (2009 est.): engineering
products, textiles and clothing, production machinery,
motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food,
beverages and tobacco; minerals, and nonferrous metals.
Imports: $358.7 billion (2009 est.): engineering
products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy
products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and
clothing; food, beverages, and tobacco. Major trading
partners: Germany, France, U.S., Spain, UK,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, China (2006).
Communications: Telephones:
main lines in use: 25.049 million (2005); mobile
cellular: 71.5 million (2005). Radio broadcast
stations: AM about 100, FM about 4,600, shortwave 9
(1998). Television broadcast stations: 358 (plus
4,728 repeaters) (1995). . Internet hosts: 4.117
million (2007). Internet users: 28.855 million
(2006).
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