Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

In 2018, trips with overnight stays made by residents were 78,940 million (+19.5% compared with 2017). The average duration of trips slightly dropped to 5.5 […]

Books production and reading

In 2017 about 85% of the 1,459 active publishers published no more than 50 titles per year; more than half (54.0%) were “small” publishers, producing […]

Loving the cinema

Istat created an infographic on frequency of going to cinema from 1993 to 2017. In 2017, 49.6% of people aged 6 and over went to […]

Tourist flow in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics releases data on tourist flows and their features in 2017 from a supply and demand-side perspective. In 2017, around 421 million nights […]

Palermo city of culture

In 2018, 668,405 inhabitants live in the municipality of Palermo. The population has been decreasing for at least 25 years (in 1990 residents were over […]

Citizens and cinema

In 2017, 49.6% of people aged 6 and over (about 28 million 400 thousand people) went to the cinema at least once in the last […]

IWD: women’s values

Istat makes available an infographic on women’s values on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD). Click the image to download pdf

Trips and holidays in Italy and abroad

In 2017, trips with overnight stays made by residents were 66,347 million. The number of trips was stable compared to 2016. The average duration of […]

Books production and reading

The Italian publishing sector is very peculiar: over half of the active operators (54.8%) are “small” publishers, who publish no more than 10 titles per […]

Italian language, dialects and other languages

In 2015, 45.9% of people aged six years and over (about 26 million and 300 thousand individuals) used to speak more frequently in Italian at […]