International rankings of Italy

The following are international rankings of Italy.

Cities

• Rome: ranked 9; Time Out's Top Ten cities in the world 2009, Timesonline
• Milan: ranked 1; Top Fashion Capital 2009, The Global Language Monitor

Demographics

Italy's population has grown to over 60 million inhabitants

• Population: ranked 23
• Population density: ranked 58
• Total fertility rate: ranked 205
• Birth rate: ranked 221
• Mortality rate: ranked 57

Economy

• World Economic Forum 2013–2014 Global Competitiveness Report: ranked 49 out of 148 countries ^[1]
• Nominal Gross Domestic Product: ranked 7
• Public debt: ranked 7 at 104% of GDP
• PPP Gross Domestic Product: ranked 10
• Economic growth rate: ranked 195 at 1.40%
• Labour force participation: 23rd in the world (24,740,000 workers).
• Unemployment: 78th lowest at 6.20%
• Index of Economic Freedom: ranked 64

Geography

Italy has 9,226km of coastline

• Total area: ranked 71
• World Resources Institute length of coastline: ranked 28 out of 149 countries^[2]

Health

• Infant mortality rate: ranked 16
• Life expectancy: ranked 18
• HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate: ranked 73 at 0.5%
• Total HIV/AIDS adult infectons: ranked 42 at 140,000

Infrastructure

• International Union of Railways: Rail transport network size: ranked 17
• CIA World Factbook: road network size 2004, ranked 14
• CIA World Factbook: number of airports 2007, ranked 46
• CIA World Factbook: waterways length ranked 40

Military

• Military expenditures: ranked 7

Politics

Silvio Berlusconi served three times as Prime Minister of Italy: from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011

• Economist Intelligence Unit 2012 Democracy Index: ranked 32 out of 167 countries^[3]
• Transparency International 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index: ranked 69 out of 177 countries^[4]

• Freedom House 2013 Freedom of the Press (report): ranked 33 out of 197 countries and territories^[5]

Religion

• 5th most Christian country in the world by percent of population (47,690,000; 90%).^[6]
• 5th most Roman Catholic country in the world by percent of population (55,599,000; 97.20% of all Italian Christians)^[7]

Society

• Quality-of-Life Index: ranked 8
• Alcohol consumption: ranked 48
• University of Leicester Satisfaction with Life Index 2006, ranked 50 out of 178 countries^[8]
• United Nations Development Programme 2013 Human Development Index ranked 25 out of 187^[9]

Sports

The Italian national team, called Azzurri or squadra azzurra for their blue shirts, are the second-most successful national team in the world

• Association football: Italian men's team are 2nd in the world in FIFA World Rankings, and 4th in the world in World Football Elo Ratings
• Italian women's team are 13th in the world in FIFA Women's World Rankings
• Basketball: Italy national basketball team are 8th in the world in FIBA World Rankings
• Cricket: Italian cricket team are 27th in the world.^[10]
• 6th most successful nation on the All-time Olympic Games medal table (combined summer and winter)
• 5th most successful nation on the All-time Olympic Games medal table (summer games).
• 11th most successful nation on the All-time Olympic Games medal table (winter games).
• Rugby League: Italy national rugby league team are 16th in the world on the RLIF World Rankings
• Rugby Union: Italy national rugby union team are 10th in the world on the IRB World Rankings
• Water Polo: Italy men's national water polo team are 6th in the world
• Italy women's national water polo team are 1st in the world
• Volleyball: Italy men's national volleyball team are 6th in the world on the FIVB World Rankings
• Italy women's national volleyball team are 2nd in the world in the FIVB World Rankings

Tourism

• World Economic Forum 2013 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index: ranked 26 out of 140 economies^[11]
• United Nations World Tourism Organization 2012 international tourism receipts: ranked 5^[12]
• United Nations World Tourism Organization 2012 international tourism expenditures: ranked 10^[13]

See also

• Lists of countries
• Lists by country
• List of international rankings

References

1. World Economic Forum. "2013–2014 Global Competitiveness Report rankings (PDF)" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-03-31.
2. "Coastal and Marine Ecosystems — Marine Jurisdictions: Coastline length". World Resources Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
3. Economist Intelligence Unit 2012 Democracy Index (PDF)
4. Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2013
5. Freedom House 2013 Freedom of the Press report
6. Adherents. "Christian Statistics: The Largest Christian Populations". Retrieved 2008-10-31.
7. Adherants. "Christian Statistics: The Largest Christian Populations". Retrieved 2008-10-31.
8. Satisfaction with Life Index
9. United Nations Development Programme 2013 Human Development Report
10. "Shane's associate rankings.". Retrieved 2008-10-31.
11. World Economic Forum 2013 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index
12. World Tourism Organization 2013 Tourism Highlights (PDF)
13. "2012 Tourism Highlights (PDF)" (PDF). UN World Tourism Organization. July 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013.