People of Italy
|
|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
c. 135 million Italian citizens: c. 55 millionItalian ancestry: c. 80 million |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Italy c. 55,000,000 |
|
 Brazil
|
32,500,000 |
 Argentina
|
30,000,000 |
 United States
|
17,250,211 |
 Venezuela
|
1,736,766 |
 France
|
1,530,563 |
 Canada
|
1,488,425 |
 Peru
|
1,400,000 |
 Uruguay
|
1,055,220 |
 Australia
|
1,000,006 |
 Germany
|
830,000 |
 Belgium
|
451,825 |
 Chile
|
184,997 |
 United Kingdom
|
130,000 |
 Mexico
|
85,000 |
 South Africa
|
77,400 |
 Russia
|
53,649 |
 Spain
|
124,013 |
 Austria
|
29,287 |
 Albania
|
19,000 |
 Croatia
|
17,807 |
 New Zealand
|
3,795 |
 Czech Republic
|
3,503 |
 Romania
|
3,203 |
| Languages | |
| Italian and other related languages (Corsican · Sardinian · Sicilian · Neapolitan · Emilian-Romagnol · Ligurian · Piedmontese · Lombard · Venetian · Friulian · Ladin · Romansh · Istriot) | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism (predominantly) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Romance peoples, Swiss people, Maltese people, Greek people | |
c. 135 million
The Italians (Italian: Italiani [itaˈljaːni]) are a nation and ethnic group native to Italy, who share a common culture and ancestry and speak the Italian language as mother tongue. Legally, all Italians are citizens of the Italian Republic, regardless of ancestry or nation of residence (though the principle of jus sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favourably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and from ethnic Italians living in territories adjacent to the Italian Peninsula. The majority of Italian nationals are native speakers of Standard Italian, though some Italians are also proficient in other languages native to Italy (often colloquially referred to as "Italian dialects").
In 2014, in addition to about 55 million Italians in Italy (91% of the Italian national population), Italian-speaking autonomous groups are found in neighbouring nations: about half a million are in Switzerland and a large population is in France, and there are smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia, primarily in Istria and Dalmatia. Because of the wide-ranging diaspora, about 5 million Italian citizens and nearly 80 million people of full or partial Italian ancestry live outside of their own homeland, most notably in parts of Europe bordering Italy, the Americas and Australia.
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