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ITALY Update: September 15th 2021 Geography Area: 301,340 km² Borders: 1,899.2 km: Austria 430 km, France 488 km, Holy See (Vatican City) 3.2 km, San Marino 39 km, Slovenia 199 km, Switzerland 740 km Coastline: 7,600 km Capital: Rome Official language:Italian Population Population: 60,555,698 inhabitants (February 2021) Crude natural change rate: -3.45‰ (2020) Population repartition: 13.2% under 15 years old, 23.2% over 65 years old (2020) Foreign residents: 2.6% EU nationals, 6.1% non-EU nationals (2019) Crude net migration rate: 0.7‰ (2019) Asylum applicants: 26,535 (2020) Life expectancy: men 80.1 years, women 84.7 years (2020) Ethnic groups: Italian, small clusters of German, French, and Slovenian in the north and Albanian and Greek in the south Religions: Christian 80% (mostly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim (about 800,000 to 1 million), Atheist and Agnostic Source : Eurostat, CIA World fact Book Economy Political System Republic, parliamentary democracy Currency: Euro Head of State: Sergio Mattarella, elected on January 31st 2015 GDP: € 1,651,594 million (2020) for seven years. President of the Council: Mario Draghi since February 13th € 27,500 (2020) GDP per capita (PPP): 2021. New "national union" coalition between the 5 Stars GDP growth: 2.7% (Q2 2021) Movement, the Democratic Party, the Liberi e Uguali Party Unemployment: 9.3% (July 2021) ("Free and Equal"), Italia viva and Forza Italia. Inflation: 2.6% (August 2021) Bicameral parliamentary regime Public debt: 155.8% of GDP (Q4 2020) The Camera dei deputati (Chamber of Deputies) is composed Budget balance: -9.4% of GDP (Q3 2020) of 630 deputies, elected for five years by direct universal Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 31.7% of suffrage. the GDP (2020) The Senato della Repubblica (Senate) comprises 315 Source : Eurostat members who are elected for five years by direct universal suffrage plus senators elected for life (currently 5). Political Representation Composition of the Senato della Repubblica Composition of the Camera dei deputati (in (in January 2021): Female representation May 2021): - 75 seats 5 Star Movement in the government: 8/24 -163 seats 5 Star Movement - 64 seats Lega-Salvini Premier -132 seats Lega - Salvini Premier - 52 seats Forza Italia - Centrist Union at the Camera dei deputati: 225/630 -93 seats Democratic Party - 38 seats Democratic Party at the Senato della Repubblica: -78 seats Forza Italia - 20 seats Brothers of Italy 110/320 - 17 seats Italia Viva - Socialist Party of -66 seats Mixted Next elections: presidential in 2022, Italy -36 seats Brothers of Italy general in 2023 -28 seats Italia Viva - 8 seats For Autonomy (SVP-PATT, UV) -23 seats Italia brave - 45 seats Mixted -11 seats Liberté and Equality - 2 seats Non-registered.