Italy is located in Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia.
Population (2014 est) – 61,680,122
Area – 187,200mi
Capital – Rome
Ethnic Background
- Italian (includes small clusters of German, French, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
Exports – engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals, nonferrous metals
Imports – engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages, and tobacco
Life Expectancy (2014 est) – M 79 years, F 85 years
Infant Mortality (2014 est) – 3.31 deaths/1,000 live births
Adult Illiteracy Rate – 1%
