Security/Foreign prisoners · Italy
Foreign prisoners in Italy: 32.0% of prisoners in 2024
Reference period: 2024 · Published: 29 Apr 2026
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32.0% foreign citizens
−0.1 points on 2023.
Foreign prisoners · % foreign citizens
Values as published by the source, at current prices.
The vertical axis does not start at zero.
Data table
| Status | Crises | Governments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32.0 | final | Meloni government | |
| 2023 | 32.1 | final | Meloni government | |
| 2022 | 31.6 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government, Meloni government |
| 2021 | 31.5 | final | COVID-19 pandemic | Conte II government, Draghi government |
| 2020 | 32.5 | final | COVID-19 pandemic | Conte II government |
| 2019 | 32.7 | final | Conte I government, Conte II government | |
| 2018 | 34.0 | final | Gentiloni government, Conte I government | |
| 2017 | 34.4 | final | Gentiloni government | |
| 2016 | 34.2 | final | Renzi government, Gentiloni government | |
| 2015 | 33.3 | final | Renzi government | |
| 2014 | 32.6 | final | Letta government, Renzi government | |
| 2013 | 35.0 | final | Monti government, Letta government | |
| 2012 | 35.7 | final | Sovereign debt crisis | Monti government |
| 2011 | 36.1 | final | Sovereign debt crisis | Berlusconi IV government, Monti government |
| 2010 | 36.1 | final | Berlusconi IV government | |
| 2009 | 37.4 | final | Financial crisis | Berlusconi IV government |
| 2008 | 37.1 | final | Financial crisis | Prodi II government, Berlusconi IV government |
EU comparison · Nominal (% foreign citizens)
Same lens as the main chart: changing it here changes it above too. Context layers are those of the main country. Each country is read in the release published on the same date. No data published up to this date for: Germany, EU-27.
The vertical axis does not start at zero.
Data table
| 2024 | 32.0 | 24.7 | 32.7 |
| 2023 | 32.1 | 24.8 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 31.6 | 25.0 | 30.1 |
| 2021 | 31.5 | 25.1 | 29.5 |
| 2020 | 32.5 | 24.6 | 28.9 |
| 2019 | 32.7 | 23.2 | 28.2 |
| 2018 | 34.0 | 23.1 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 34.4 | 22.4 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 34.2 | 21.9 | 28.8 |
| 2015 | 33.3 | 21.1 | 29.0 |
| 2014 | 32.6 | 20.9 | 30.3 |
| 2013 | 35.0 | 20.6 | 31.6 |
| 2012 | 35.7 | 19.6 | 33.4 |
| 2011 | 36.1 | 19.4 | 34.8 |
| 2010 | 36.1 | 19.2 | 35.6 |
| 2009 | 37.4 | 18.9 | 35.7 |
| 2008 | 37.1 | 19.1 | 35.6 |
What it measures
Prisoners with foreign citizenship as a percentage of all prisoners, computed from the values published by Eurostat. Version published by Eurostat on 29 April 2026.
Methodology
Prisoners with foreign citizenship as a percentage of all prisoners, computed by Data Super Partes dividing the two values Eurostat publishes for the same year. It needs context: foreign prisoners include people without a residence permit, who are not counted among residents; people without a stable residence have less access to house arrest and to alternatives to prison; prisoners are mostly young men, and the foreign population is younger than the Italian one. The share of foreigners among residents is in the Foreign residents series of the Immigration topic. Germany does not publish prisoners' citizenship.
Source
Eurostat · Prisoners by citizenship
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Context layers and attribution rules
Crises
Conventional whole-year periods chosen by the editors; each period's source documents the event. They apply to every EU country. They show temporal coincidences, not causes.
4 periods with source
- Financial crisis1 Jan 2008 – 31 Dec 2009
- Sovereign debt crisis1 Jan 2011 – 31 Dec 2012
- COVID-19 pandemic1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2021
- Energy crisis1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
Governments
Each government covers the period from its swearing-in to the end date given by governo.it. An annual figure is not attributed to a single government: the bands show who was in office during the period, as a temporal coincidence. For public spending, the budget law for year N is passed by the government in office in year N−1.
14 periods with source
- D'Alema II government22 Dec 1999 – 25 Apr 2000
- Amato II government25 Apr 2000 – 11 Jun 2001
- Berlusconi II government11 Jun 2001 – 23 Apr 2005
- Berlusconi III government23 Apr 2005 – 17 May 2006
- Prodi II government17 May 2006 – 6 May 2008
- Berlusconi IV government8 May 2008 – 16 Nov 2011
- Monti government16 Nov 2011 – 27 Apr 2013
- Letta government28 Apr 2013 – 21 Feb 2014
- Renzi government22 Feb 2014 – 12 Dec 2016
- Gentiloni government12 Dec 2016 – 1 Jun 2018
- Conte I government1 Jun 2018 – 4 Sept 2019
- Conte II government5 Sept 2019 – 13 Feb 2021
- Draghi government13 Feb 2021 – 22 Oct 2022
- Meloni government22 Oct 2022 – in office
Release history
Every release stays published as it was. Differences are computed against the release published before it.