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GeographyLocation: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia
Area: Land boundaries: total 1,899.2 km, Austria 430 km, France 488 km, Holy See (VaticanCity) 3.2 km, San Marino 39 km, Slovenia 199 km, Switzerland 740 km Coastline: 4,996 km
PeoplePopulation: 58,261,971 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 0.21% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 10.89 births/1,000 population Death rate: 9.78 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: 1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population Infant mortality rate: 7.4 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 1.41 children born/woman Ethnic divisions: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south), Sicilians,Sardinians Religions: Roman Catholic 98%, other 2% Languages: Italian, German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
Government
Names:
Type: republic Capital: Rome Independence: 17 March 1861 (Kingdom of Italy proclaimed) Constitution: 1 January 1948
EconomyNational product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $998.9 billion National product real growth rate: 2.2% National product per capita: $17,180 Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% Unemployment rate: 12.2%
Electricity:
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| The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts. |