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 ItalyMore Facts & FiguresNational
name: Repubblica Italiana
Current government officials
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 (2007 est.):
$1.786 trillion; per capita $30,400. Real growth rate: 1.5%.
Inflation: 2%. Unemployment: 6%. 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: $474.8 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.): engineering
products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles,
transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals,
and nonferrous metals. Imports: $483.6 billion f.o.b. (2007
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). Transportation: Railways: total: 19,460 km
(2006). Highways: total: 484,688 km; paved: 479,688 km
(including 6,621 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km (2004).
Waterways: 2,400 km; note: used for commercial traffic; of
limited overall value compared to road and rail (2004). Ports and
harbors: Augusta, Genoa, Livorno, Melilli Oil Terminal, Ravenna,
Taranto, Trieste, Venice. Airports: 132 (2007). International disputes: Italy's long
coastline and developed economy entices tens of thousands of illegal
immigrants from southeastern Europe and northern Africa.
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