Editing Venice (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations|3=1871|4=164965|5=1881|6=165802|7=1901|8=189368|9=1911|10=208463|11=1921|12=223373|13=1931|14=250327|15=1936|16=264027|17=1951|18=310034|19=1961|20=339671|21=1971|22=354475|23=1981|24=336081|25=1991|26=298532|27=2001|28=271073|29=2011|30=261362|31=2021|32=251944|type=|align=right|widths=50px|heights=50px|footnote=Source: [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]]}}The city was one of the largest in Europe in the [[High Middle Ages]], with a population of 60,000 in AD 1000; 80,000 in 1200; and rising up to 110,000–180,000 in 1300. In the mid-1500s the city's population was 170,000, and by 1600 it approached 200,000.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC&pg=PA266 |title=Urban World History |isbn=9782760522091 |last1=Tellier |first1=Luc-Normand |year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Dursteler |editor-first=Eric |editor-link=Eric R. Dursteler |title=A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ascAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA257 |date=2013 |chapter=The Venetian Economy |series=Brill's Companions to European History |volume=4 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-25252-3 |page=257}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hK-EAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141 |title=Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology |isbn=9781134636204 |last1=Chant |first1=Colin |last2=Goodman |first2=David |date=8 November 2005 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Abu-Lughod |first=Janet L. |author-link=Janet Abu-Lughod |date=1989 |title=Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250–1350 |url=https://archive.org/details/beforeeuropeanhe00abul_1/page/125 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=125}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Spruyt |first=Hendrik |author-link=Hendrik Spruyt |date=1994 |title=The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx2Q4hxT5HAC&pg=PA132 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=132 |isbn=9780691029108 |lccn=lc94010759}}</ref>

In 2021, there were 254,850 people residing in the Comune of Venice (the population figure includes 50,434 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico), 177,621 in Terraferma (the mainland); and 26,795 on other islands in the lagoon).<ref name="population 2021">{{cite web |url=https://www.comune.venezia.it/it/node/40751 |title=Serie Storica Popolazione – Anni dal 1871 al 2021 |date=17 February 2022 |language=it |website=City of Venice |access-date=6 August 2022 |archive-date=6 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806163829/https://www.comune.venezia.it/it/node/40751 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 47.8% of the population in 2021 were male and 52.2% were female; minors (ages 18 and younger) were 14.7% of the population compared to elderly people (ages 65 and older) who numbered 27.9%. This compared with the Italian average of 16.7% and 23.5%, respectively. The average age of Venice residents was 48.6 compared to the Italian average of 45.9. In the five years between 2016 and 2021, the population of Venice declined by 2.7%, while Italy as a whole declined by 2.2%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tuttitalia.it/veneto/40-venezia/statistiche/ |title=Statistiche demografiche Venezia |trans-title=Demographic statistics Venice |language=it |work=Tuttitalia |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref> The population in the historic old city declined much faster: from about 120,000 in 1980 to about 60,000 in 2009,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Cathy |date=August 2009 |title=Vanishing Venice |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/venice |url-access=subscription |magazine=National Geographic |quote=Gherardo Ortalli, a professor of medieval history [...] says [...] 'When I arrived 30 years ago, the population was 120,000. Now it is less than 60,000.'}}</ref> and to 50,000 in 2021.<ref name="population 2021" /> {{As of|2021}}, 84.2% of the population was Italian. The largest immigrant groups include: 7,814 (3.1%) [[Bangladeshis]], 6,258 (2.5%) [[Romanians]], 4,054 (1.6%) [[Moldovans]], 4,014 (1.6%) [[Chinese people|Chinese]], and 2,514 (1%) [[Ukrainians]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tuttitalia.it/veneto/40-venezia/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri-2018/ |title=Cittadini stranieri Venezia 2021 |language=it |publisher=Tuttitalia |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>

Venice is predominantly [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] (85.0% of the resident population in the area of the [[Patriarchate of Venice]] in 2022<ref>{{cite web |last=Cheney |first=David M. |title=Patriarchate of Venezia (Venice) |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dvene.html |website=[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org|Catholic-Hierarchy]] |access-date=2 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302071925/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dvene.html |archive-date=2 March 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>), but because of the long-standing relationship with [[Constantinople]], there is also a noticeable [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] presence; and as a result of immigration, there is now a large [[Islam|Muslim]] community (about 25,000 or 9.5% of city population in 2018<ref>{{cite news |last=Sperandio |first=Alvise |title=La Comunità islamica: "Vogliamo la moschea" (Venezia) |trans-title=The Islamic Community: "We want the mosque" (Venice) |url=https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/venezia/venezia_moschea-4060778.html |work=[[Il Gazzettino]] |date=24 October 2018 |access-date=15 November 2019 |language=it |quote=25 mila persone di fede mussulmana che risiedono in città |trans-quote=25 thousand people of Muslim faith who reside in the city}}</ref>) and some [[Hindu]], and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] inhabitants.

Since 1991, the Church of [[San Giorgio dei Greci]] in Venice has become the [[Episcopal see|see]] of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Malta|Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Malta and Exarchate of Southern Europe]], a [[Byzantine Rite|Byzantine-rite]] diocese under the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esarcato.it/concelebrazione-dei-vescovi-ortodossi-ditalia-a-venezia/?lang=en |title=Italian Orthodox Bishops concelebrating in Venice. |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215174526/http://www.ortodossia.it/Home.it.htm |archive-date=15 December 2008}}</ref>

There is also a historic [[History of the Jews in Venice|Jewish community]] in Venice. The [[Venetian Ghetto]] was the area in which Jews were compelled to live under the Venetian Republic. The word ''ghetto'' (''ghèto''), originally [[Venetian language|Venetian]], is now found in many languages. [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', written in the late 16th century, features [[Shylock]], a Venetian Jew. The first complete and uncensored printed edition of the [[Talmud]] was printed in Venice by [[Daniel Bomberg]] in 1523. During [[World War II]], Jews were rounded up in Venice and deported to [[extermination camp]]s. Since the end of the war, the Jewish population of Venice has declined from 1500 to about 500.<ref>{{cite web |title=Venice |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/venice |access-date=9 March 2020 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810073724/https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/venice |url-status=dead}}</ref> Only around 30 Jews live in the former ghetto, which houses the city's major Jewish institutions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Venice, Italy Jewish History Tour |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Venice.html |work=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |access-date=2 March 2024 |quote=Today Venice has a Jewish population of about 500 peoples, only 30 of them live in the former ghetto. The ghetto houses all of the city’s major Jewish institutions.}}</ref> In modern times, Venice has an [[eruv]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ghetto.it/ghetto/en/foto.asp?padre=3&figlio=1 |title=Venetian Ghetto – Eruv in Venice |last=Foà |first=Ruben |work=www.ghetto.it |language=en |access-date=2 August 2010 |archive-date=27 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427170517/http://www.ghetto.it/ghetto/en/foto.asp?padre=3&figlio=1 |url-status=dead}}</ref> used by the Jewish community.