Editing Bari (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations|1861|44572|1871|61541|1881|72624|1901|94236|1911|121633|1921|136247|1931|172600|1936|197918|1951|268183|1961|312023|1971|357274|1981|371022|1991|342309|2001|316532|2011|315933|2021|315948|source=[[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|ISTAT]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Popolazione residente e presente dei comuni. Censimenti dal 1861 al 1971|trans-title=Resident and present population of the municipalities. Censuses from 1861 to 1971|url=https://ebiblio.istat.it/digibib/Censimenti%20popolazione/Censimentipopolazioneresidentedal1861/PUV0027177Pop_res_pres_cens_1861_1971_Tomo1.pdf|date=1971-10-24|lang=it|publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|ISTAT]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dashboard Permanent census of population and housing|url=https://esploradati.censimentopopolazione.istat.it/databrowser/#/en/censtest/dashboards|publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|ISTAT]]}}</ref>}}

As of 2015, there are 315,473 people residing in Bari, of whom 48.1% were male and 51.9% were female.<ref name="population3" />

As of 2015, 3.8% of the population were foreign residents.<ref>{{cite web |website=Comuni-Italiani.it |title=Cittadini Stranieri - Bari |language=it |trans-title=Foreigners - Bari |url=http://www.comuni-italiani.it/072/006/statistiche/stranieri.html |access-date=2018-03-13}}</ref>
{|
! Residents by Region !! Residents by Nationality
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{| class="wikitable" align="center"
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| Central / Eastern Europe || 2,047
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| European Union || 1,983
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| Western Asia || 1,948
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| South / Central Asia || 1,732
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| East Africa || 1,486
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| East Asia || 1,343
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| West Africa || 1,000
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| North Africa || 492
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| South / Central America || 368
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| North America || 54
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| South / Central Africa || 22
|}
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{| class="wikitable" align="center"
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| Georgia || 1,664
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| Albania || 1,390
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| Romania || 1,171
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| Bangladesh || 828
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| China || 731
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| Mauritius || 689
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| Philippines || 561
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| Nigeria || 474
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| Pakistan || 353
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| India || 300
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| Somalia || 291
|}
|}

=== Migration ===
According to an urban migration study in Bari, return migration gain to urban areas is higher than migration loss from urban areas. People migrating from urban destinations tend to migrate to different places in comparison to people migrating from rural areas. These findings are based on the background and behavior of a sample of 211 return migrants to Bari, Italy. Bari is a port city, making it historically important because of its strong trade links with Greece, North Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean. Bari's economic structure is based on industry, commerce, services, and administration. Around two-thirds of the city's employment is in the tertiary sector with its port, commerce, and administrative functions. The highest percentage of Bari's working population is employed in services, with 45.6%. From 1958 to 1982, around 20% of migrants left Bari for other Italian communes, while around 17% or migrants came to Bari from other Italian communes. Under 2% of migrants left Bari to go abroad and came to the city from abroad.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=King |first1=Russel |last2=Strachan |first2=Alan |last3=Mortimer |first3=Jill |title=The Urban Dimension of European Return Migration: The Case of Bari, Southern Italy |journal=Urban Studies |date=June 1985 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=219–235 |jstor=43192080 |doi=10.1080/00420988520080361|bibcode=1985UrbSt..22..219K |s2cid=154608219 }}</ref>