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A Social-Demographic
Profile of Italy
Italy Facts
Official Language: Italian
Predominant Religion: Roman Catholic
Capital City: Rome
Population in 2004: 58,057,477
Considered to be a “More Developed Nation”
Architecture in Northern Italy
Pope John Paul II
Geography
Area: 301,230 square
kilometers
Three-quarters of Italy’s
land is mountainous
The Po
North Vs. South Climate
Natural Disasters
Mount Etna in
Sicily (Britton,
p.10)
Population
- Crowded Italy streets
Italy and Fertility
Birth Rate:
9.05/1,000
Total Fertility
Rate: 1.27
* EXTREMELY LOW!
Factors Contributing to Italy’s Low Fertility
1. Education and employment
opportunities for Italian Women
2. Industrial and Technological
Development
3. More modern interests and
lifestyles
Factors Contributing to Italy’s Low Fertility
1. Education and employment
opportunities for Italian Women
2. Industrial and Technological
Development
3. More modern interests and
lifestyles
Factors Contributing to Italy’s Low Fertility
1. Education and employment
opportunities for Italian Women
2. Industrial and Technological
Development
3. More modern interests and
lifestyles
Italy and Mortality
Death Rate:
10.21/1,000
Life Expectancy:
79.54 years
Males - 76
Females - 82
Italy’s Aging Population
…and Feminization of Old Age
Factors Contributing to Italy’s High Life
Expectancy and Low Mortality Rate
1. Urbanization
2. Education
3. Health Care System
Servizio Sanitario Nazionale
Milan, Italy (Agosti, p. 129)
Factors Contributing to Italy’s High Life
Expectancy and Low Mortality Rate
1. Urbanization
2. Education
3. Health Care System
Servizio Sanitario Nazionale
- Servizio Sanitario
Nazionale
Italy and Government
Gained Independence on March 17, 1861
Republic Government
16 Administrative ‘regions’
1. Judicial Branch (Corte Constituzionale)
15 Judges
Italy and Government
2. Executive Branch
Head of Government (President of
the Council of Ministers)
Cabinet
Chief of state
Silvio Berlusconi:
President of the
Council of Ministers
Italy and Government
3. Legislative Branch (Parliament)
Camera dei Deputati (Chamber of Deputies)
Senato della Repubblica (Senate)
Italian Senate
Italy and Economy
Labour Force: 24.15 million people
Unemployment Rate: 8.6%
North vs. South
Urbanization…
Italy and Economy
Italy and the Economy:
TOURISM
Colosseum in Rome
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Roman_Colosseum.html
Leaning Tower of Pisa
<http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/index_eng.html>
Italy and Migration
INTERNAL MIGRATION
Push-Pull Theory - “some people
move because they are pushed out of
their former location, whereas others
move because they have been pulled,
or attracted to someplace else”
(Weeks, 2005, p. 282).
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
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