Editing Veneto (section)

===Immigration and ethnicity===
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|+ The largest resident foreign-born groups on 31 December 2019<ref name="Stranieri">{{cite web |title=Foreign Citizens. Resident Population by sex and citizenship on 31st December 2019 |url=http://demo.istat.it/str2019/query.php?lingua=eng&Rip=S1&Reg=R08&Pro=P000&Com=&paese=A9999&submit=Tavola |publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|National Institute of Statistics]] |access-date=19 June 2018 |language=it}}</ref>
|-
! Nationality ||Population
|-
| {{flagu|Romania}}||124,533
|-
| {{flagu|Morocco}} ||44,837
|-
| {{flagdeco|PRC}} China ||34,777
|-
| {{flagu|Albania}} ||32,376
|-
| {{flagu|Moldova}} ||31,052
|-
| {{flagu|Bangladesh}} ||17,517
|-
| {{flagu|Ukraine}} ||16,207
|-
| {{flagu|India}} ||15,634
|-
| {{flagu|Nigeria}} ||14,363
|-
| {{flagu|Sri Lanka}} ||13,031
|}

Nearly 3 million Venetians left their country between 1861 and 1961 to escape poverty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucemi.it/Notizie/Emigrazione_veneta_041007.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219113525/http://www.ucemi.it/Notizie/Emigrazione_veneta_041007.pdf |archive-date=2008-12-19 |url-status=live |title={{title case|L'EMIGRAZIONE VENETA NEL RAPPORTO 2007 DELLA MIGRANTES PRESENTATO OGGI A VENEZIA}} |publisher=Editrice SOGEDI s.r.l. – Reg. Trib. Roma n°15771/75 |access-date=2010-01-25}}</ref> Many emigrated to [[Brazil]] and [[Argentina]]. After [[World War II]], they moved to other European countries. In 2008, there were 260,849 Venetian citizens living outside of Italy (5.4% of the region's population), the largest number was found in Brazil, with 57,052 Venetians, followed by [[Switzerland]], with 38,320, and [[Argentina]], with 31,823. There are several million people of Venetian descent around the world, particularly in Brazil, in the states of [[Rio Grande do Sul]], [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]] and [[Paraná (state)|Paraná]]. Local names in [[Southern Region, Brazil|Southern Brazil]] such as Nova Schio, [[Nova Bassano]], [[Nova Bréscia]], Nova Treviso, [[Nova Veneza, Santa Catarina|Nova Veneza]], Nova Pádua and Monteberico indicate the Venetian origin of their inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.italiannetwork.it/news.aspx?ln=it&id=4697 |title={{title case|ITALIANI ALL'ESTERO – PROGETTO "STORIE DI GENTE VENETA NEL MONDO". DAL RAPPORTO MIGRANTES ITALIANI NEL MONDO 2008: 260.849 I VENETI NEL MONDO}} |publisher=Italiannetwork.it |access-date=2010-04-24}}</ref> In recent years, people of Venetian descent from Brazil and Argentina have been migrating to Italy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museonazionaleemigrazione.it/regioni.php?id=21 |title=Museo Nazionale Emigrazione Italiana |publisher=Museonazionaleemigrazione.it |access-date=2010-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722043417/http://www.museonazionaleemigrazione.it/regioni.php?id=21 |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref>

Due to the impressive [[economic growth]] of the last two decades, Veneto has turned into a land of immigration and has been attracting more and more immigrants since the 1990s. In 2008, the Italian [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|national institute of statistics]] ISTAT estimated that 403,985 foreign-born immigrants live in Veneto, equal to 8.3% of the total regional population.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Vincenzo Patruno |author2=Marina Venturi |author3=Silvestro Roberto |url=http://demo.istat.it/ |title=Demo-Geodemo. – Mappe, Popolazione, Statistiche Demografiche dell'ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=2009-05-06}}</ref>