At the end of 2008, the population of the country surpassed 60 million, the fourth -most populous country in Europe, and with a fifth -highest population density with a average of 198 persons per kilometer.
As of the age of sixty, the Italian population experienced a change in its rhythm of growth, which was since 0,30 per cent of average year between 1985 and 1990.
The lowering of the death cup was accompanied by a sizeable decline in the birth cup, one of all five Italians over 65 years in 2008.
The change in the geographical tents added to the traditional migration movements that had also made Italy one of the largest management of Europe and America.
It happened to become a small arrival of third -world immigrants, but, above all, there were important migration currends among them.
With a massive southerly population movement in Rome and the north -industrialized, not to the north, but to the north, but to help with the growth of birth.
The mealy cup has grown for a few years since 1,32 children per mulier in 2005 to 1,41 in the year of 2008.
