Editing Campania (section)

==Demographics==
{{Main|Demographics of Campania}}{{Historical populations|1861|2402355|1871|2520095|1881|2659688|1901|2914073|1911|3101593|1921|3343293|1931|3508774|1936|3696632|1951|4346264|1961|4760759|1971|5059348|1981|5463134|1991|5630280|2001|5701931|2011|5766810|2021|5624420|align=right|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>}}The region, with a population of over 5.8 million inhabitants, is divided into five provinces: Naples, Benevento, Avellino, Caserta and Salerno. Over half of the population is resident in the province of Naples, where there is a population density of 2,626 inhabitants per km2. Within the province, the highest density can be found along the coast, where it reaches 13,000 inhabitants per km2 in the city of Portici. The region, which was characterised until recently by an acute economic contrast between internal and coastal areas, has shown an improvement in the last decade thanks to the development of the provinces of Benevento and Avellino. At the same time, the provinces of Naples, Caserta and in part Salerno, have developed a variety of activities connected to advanced types of services.<ref name="regportraits1">{{cite web |url=http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itf3_geo.htm |title=Eurostat |publisher=Circa.europa.eu |access-date=5 May 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721132137/http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itf3_geo.htm |archive-date=21 July 2011 }}</ref>

===Immigration and ethnicity===
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|+The largest resident foreign-born groups on 31 December 2021<ref name="Stranieri">{{cite web |title=Foreign Citizens. Resident Population by sex and citizenship on 31st December 2021 |url=https://demo.istat.it/app/?l=it&a=2021&i=P03 |publisher=[[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|National Institute of Statistics]] |access-date=19 June 2022 |language=it |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424193525/https://demo.istat.it/app/?i=RCS&l=it |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! Nationality ||Population
|-
| {{flagu|Ukraine}} ||37,834
|-
| {{flagu|Romania}}||33,334
|-
| {{flagu|Morocco}} ||23,252
|-
| {{flagu|Sri Lanka}} ||16,506
|-
| {{flagdeco|PRC}} China ||11,896
|-
| {{flagu|Nigeria}} ||8,648
|-
| {{flagu|India}} ||8,147
|-
| {{flagu|Albania}} ||7,966
|-
| {{flagu|Pakistan}} ||7,689
|-
| {{flagu|Poland}} ||6,855
|}

Unlike central and [[northern Italy]], in the first decade of the 2000s the region of Campania has not attracted large numbers of immigrants, despite having increased from approximately 100,000 in 2007 to 240,000 in 2021. The Italian national institute of statistics [[Istituto Nazionale di Statistica|ISTAT]] estimated in December 2022 that 241,008 foreign-born immigrants live in Campania, equal to 4.32% of the total regional population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://demo.istat.it/app/?l=it&a=2022&i=P03 |title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=5 May 2023 |archive-date=30 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430095145/https://demo.istat.it/app/?l=it&a=2022&i=P03 |url-status=live }}</ref> Part of the reason for this is in recent times, there have been more employment opportunities in northern regions than in the [[Southern Italy|Southern Italian]] regions.