How many regular immigrants are there in Italy

The non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy on 1st January 2016 were 3,931,133. A figure which is almost stable if compared with the previous year. To be noted, however, that for the first time since the early 90′s, there was a decline in the presence of women (-6,742 residence permits than in 2015). Furthermore, according to the latest Istat data, the most relevant citizenships were: Moroccan (510,450), Albanian (482,959), Chinese (333,986), Ukrainian (240,141) and Indian (169,394). From 2011 to 2015 the acquisitions of citizenship of non-EU citizens increased rapidly: in 2011 they were 50 thousand, in 2015 they were almost 159 thousand. From 2014 to 2015 the acquisitions of citizenship for marriage reasons were decreasing: in 2014 they were 14% of total acquisitions of citizenship while in 2015 they represented 9%. This decrease has affected mostly the female component (from 25% to 16%