Editing Piedmont (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations
|1861 |2758550|1871 |2928160|1881 |3089928|1901 |3319025
|1911 |3413837|1921 |3439050|1931 |3457731|1936 |3418300|1951 |3518177|1961 |3914250
|1971 |4432313|1981 |4479031
|1991 |4302565
|2001 |4214677|2011|4363916|2021|4256350|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>}}

{| class="wikitable floatright"
|+31 December 2018 largest resident foreign citizens groups{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
|-
! '''Country of birth''' ||Population
|-
| {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Romania]] ||147,916
|-
| {{flagicon|MAR}} [[Morocco]] ||54,151
|-
| {{flagicon|ALB}} [[Albania]] ||40,919
|-
|{{flagicon|PRC}} [[China]] ||20,091
|-
|{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Nigeria]] ||12,638
|-
| {{flagicon|PER}} [[Peru]] ||11,579
|-
|{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Ukraine]] ||10,435
|-
|{{flagicon|MDA}} [[Moldova]] ||8,945
|-
| {{flagicon|EGY}} [[Egypt]] ||7,889
|-
|{{flagicon|SEN}} [[Senegal]] ||7,626
|-
| {{flagicon|MKD}} [[North Macedonia]]||6,463
|-
|{{flagicon|PHI}} [[Philippines]] ||6,309
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} [[India]] ||5,301
|-
|{{flagicon|PAK}} [[Pakistan]] ||5,084

|}

The population density in Piedmont is lower than the national average. In 2008, it was equal to 174 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>, compared to the national figure of about 200. The [[Metropolitan City of Turin]] has 335 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>, whereas [[Verbano-Cusio-Ossola]] is the least densely populated province, with 72 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name="Eurostat">{{cite web |url=http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc1_pop.htm |title=Eurostat |work=Europa (web portal) |access-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721132952/http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc1_pop.htm |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref>

The population of Piedmont followed a downward trend throughout the 1980s, a result of the natural negative balance (of some 3 to 4% per year), while the migratory balance since 1986 has again become positive because of immigration.<ref name="Eurostat"/> The population remained stable in the 1990s.

The Turin metro area grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s due to an increase of immigrants from southern Italy and Veneto and today it has a population of approximately two million. {{As of|2008}}, the Italian national institute of statistics (ISTAT) estimated that 310,543 foreign-born immigrants lived in Piedmont, equal to 7.0% of the total regional population. Most immigrants come from Eastern Europe (mostly from Romania, Albania, and Ukraine) with smaller communities of African immigrants.