The number of foreigners counted in the resident population is continuously increasing: at the end of 2007 they were 3,432,651 (5.8% of total population). In relative terms the increase has been of 16.8% in the last year, 122% in the last 6 years.[30] Since the expansion of the European Union, the most recent wave of migration has been from surrounding European nations, particularly Eastern Europe, and increasingly Asia, replacing North Africa as a major source of migrants. Some 625,287 Romanians are officially registered as living in Italy, replacing Albanians and Moroccans as the largest ethnic minority group,[31] but unofficial estimates put the actual number of Romanians at double that figure or perhaps even more.[32] As of 2007, migrants came from Eastern Europe (52.02%), North Africa (16.17%), Asia (16.08%), the Americas (8.5%) and sub-Saharan Africa (7.06%).[1]
Nationality  | Population | % of total* |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 56,186,639 | 94.2% |
| Romanian | 625,278 | 1.05% |
| North African | 555,376 | 0.93% |
| Albanian | 401,949 | 0.67% |
| Chinese | 156,619 | 0.26% |
| Ukrainian | 132,718 | 0.22% |
| Asian (non-Chinese) | 395,466 | 0.66% |
| South American | 276,101 | 0.46% |
| Sub-Saharan African | 242,621 | 0.41% |
| Other | 648,523 | 1.09% |
| * Percentage of total Italy population | ||
