Editing Ancona (section)

==Demographics==
{{Update section|date=September 2024}}
{{Historical populations
| footnote = Source: P. Burattini. ''Stradario – Guida della città di Ancona'' (Ancona, 1951), [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]]
| 1174 |11000
| 1565 |18435
| 1582 |27770
| 1656 |17033
| 1701 |16212
| 1708 |16194
| 1769 |23028
| 1809 |31231
| 1816 |32636
| 1828 |36816
| 1844 |43217
| 1846 |43953
| 1853 |44833
| 1861 |47230
| 1871 |45681
| 1881 |48888
| 1901 |58602
| 1911 |65388
| 1921 |68521
| 1931 |75372
| 1936 |78639
| 1951 |85763
| 1961 |100485
| 1971 |109789
| 1981 |106498| 1991 |101285
| 2001 |100507
|2011|100497|2021|98402}}
In 2007, there were 101,480 people residing in Ancona (the greater area has a population more than four times its size), located in the province of Ancona, [[Marche]]s, of whom 47.6% were male and 52.4% were female. Minors (children ages 18 and younger) totalled 15.54 percent of the population compared to pensioners who number 24.06 percent. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06 percent (minors) and 19.94 percent (pensioners). The average age of Ancona residents is 48, compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Ancona grew by 1.48 percent, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.56 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://demo.istat.it/bil2002/index.html |title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=25 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/bil2007/index.html |title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=25 March 2013 |archive-date=26 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426215446/http://demo.istat.it/bil2007/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> The current birth rate of Ancona is 8.14 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.

{{As of|2006}}, 92.77% of the population was Italian. The largest immigrant group came from other European nations (particularly those from [[Albania]], [[Romania]] and [[Ukraine]]): 3.14%, followed by the [[Americas]]: 0.93%, [[East Asia]]: 0.83%, and [[North Africa]]: 0.80%.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}