Circle frame.svg Foreign population resident in Italy.[141] European Union (29.2%)

    198,714
7    Bologna    Emilia-Romagna    373,010    17    Brescia    Lombardy    188,872
8    Florence    Tuscany    362,389    18    Prato    Tuscany    186,878
9    Bari    Apulia    314,258    19    Reggio Calabria    Calabria    180,728
10    Catania    Sicily    293,112    20    Modena    Emilia-Romagna    179,244
Ethnic groups
Main article: Immigration to Italy


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Foreign population resident in Italy.[141]
  European Union (29.2%)
  Europe non-EU (24.2%)
  North Africa (14.9%)
  South Asia (8.8%)
  East Asia (8.0%)
  Latin America (7.7%)
  Sub-Saharan Africa (6.7%)
  Other (0.5%)
Italy was a country of mass emigration from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year.[142] The diaspora concerned more than 25 million Italians and it is considered the biggest mass migration of contemporary times.[143] As a result, today more than 4.1 million Italian-born people are living abroad,[144] while at least 60 million people of full or part Italian ancestry live outside of Italy, most notably in Argentina,[145] Brazil,[146] Uruguay,[147] Venezuela,[148] the United States,[149] Canada,[150] Australia,[151] and France.[152]
Immigrants by country
Country    2012[153]   
 Romania    997,000   
 Morocco    506,369   
 Albania    491,495   
 China    277,570   
 Ukraine    223,782