After entering Italy, the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread fast. The strict lockdown implemented by the government during the Spring 2020 helped to slow down the outbreak. However, in the following months the country had to face four new harsh waves of contagion. As of January 1, 2025, 198,638 deaths caused by COVID-19 were reported by the authorities, of which approximately 48.7 thousand in the region of Lombardy, 20.1 thousand in the region of Emilia-Romagna, and roughly 17.6 thousand in Veneto, the regions mostly hit. The total number of cases reported in the country reached over 26.9 million. The north of the country was mostly hit, and the region with the highest number of cases was Lombardy, which registered almost 4.4 million of them. The north-eastern region of Veneto counted about 2.9 million cases. Italy's death toll was one of the most tragic in the world. In the last months, however, the country saw the end to this terrible situation: as of November 2023, 85 percent of the total Italian population was fully vaccinated. For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

Since the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy, started in February 2020, many people who contracted the infection died. The number of deaths amounted to 198,683 as of January 8, 2025. On December 3, 2020, 993 patients died, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic. The region with the highest number of deaths was Lombardy, which is also the region that registered the highest number of coronavirus cases. Italy's death toll was one of the most tragic in the world. In the last months, however, the country saw the end to this terrible situation: as of November 2023, roughly 85 percent of the total Italian population was fully vaccinated. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

The total number of deaths increased overall in recent years in Italy. In 2023, approximately 671,000 died in Italy, compared to about 715,000 in 2022.

Italy: Deaths of children five to fourteen years of age per 1000 live births: The latest value from 2022 is 0 deaths per 1000 births, unchanged from 0 deaths per 1000 births in 2021. In comparison, the world average is 3 deaths per 1000 births, based on data from 187 countries. Historically, the average for Italy from 1990 to 2022 is 1 deaths per 1000 births. The minimum value, 0 deaths per 1000 births, was reached in 2008 while the maximum of 1 deaths per 1000 births was recorded in 1990.

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In March 2020, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Italy recorded the highest monthly number of deaths across the period January 2019-October 2024. The number of individuals who died in March 2020 was 86,500. Another critical month was November 2020, when 78,500 deaths were reported. By contrast, in September 2019, 46,500 deaths were recorded, the lowest number of fatalities within the past five years. The deaths registered from February to June 2024 were the lowest since 2019.

Italy Coronavirus Cases by Age group and Sex (ICCAS)

This repository contains datasets about the number of Italian Sars-CoV-2 confirmed cases and deaths disaggregated by age group and sex. The data is (automatically) extracted from pdf reports (like this) published by Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) two times a week. A link to the most recent report can be found in this page under section "Documento esteso".

PDF reports are usually published on Tuesday and Friday and contains data updated to the 4 p.m. of the day day before their release.

I wrote a script that is runned periodically in order to automatically update this repository when a new report is published. The code is hosted in a separate repository.

For feedback and issues refers to the GitHub repository.

Data folder structure

The data folder is structured as follows: data ├── by-date │ └── iccas_{date}.csv Dataset with cases/deaths updated to 4 p.m. of {date} └── iccas_full.csv Dataset with data from all reports (by date) The full dataset is obtained by concatenating all datasets in by-date and has an additional date column. If you use pandas, I suggest you to read this dataset using a multi-index on the first two columns: python import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv('iccas_full.csv', index_col=(0, 1)) # ('date', 'age_group')

NOTE: {date} is the date the data refers to, NOT the release date of the report it was extracted from: as written above, a report is usually released with a day of delay. For example, iccas_2020-03-19.csv contains data relative to 2020-03-19 which was extracted from the report published in 2020-03-20.

Dataset details

Each dataset in the by-date folder contains the same data you can find in "Table 1" of the corresponding ISS report. This table contains the number of confirmed cases, deaths and other derived information disaggregated by age group (0-9, 10-19, ..., 80-89, >=90) and sex.

WARNING: the sum of male and female cases is not equal to the total number of cases, since the sex of some cases is unknown. The same applies to deaths.

Below, {sex} can be male or female.

All columns that can be computed from absolute counts of cases and deaths (bottom half of the table above) were all re-computed to increase precision.

We calculate excess mortality, i.e., attributable to Covid-19, across all (7,272) Italian municipalities using death registry data (see References) by deducting from a municipality's (daily) number of deaths the average number of deaths over the previous five years in the same municipality, using an evenly-spaced-around window of seven days. The date ("GE" column) is in "mmdd" format, while the municipality code ("codice_comune" column) follows standard ISTAT codes. The sample period runs from February to April 2020, and excludes municipalities that were never hit by the Covid-19 disease within the first four months of 2020, i.e. cumulative mortality rate among residents of a municipality did not reach a threshold of 100 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

Italy: Infant deaths per 1000 live births: The latest value from 2022 is 2 deaths per 1000 live births, unchanged from 2 deaths per 1000 live births in 2021. In comparison, the world average is 19 deaths per 1000 live births, based on data from 187 countries. Historically, the average for Italy from 1960 to 2022 is 13 deaths per 1000 live births. The minimum value, 2 deaths per 1000 live births, was reached in 2021 while the maximum of 44 deaths per 1000 live births was recorded in 1960.

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Italy recorded 25828252 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Italy reported 190080 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Italy Coronavirus Cases.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the number of deaths in Italy remained rather stable. In 2020, on the contrary, the death rate reached 12.5 per 1,000 inhabitants, a notable increase compared to previous years. Four years after the pandemic, the figure remains above 10 deaths per 1,000 residents. From the perspective of the single regions, the highest number of deaths was registered in Liguria, whereas the lowest death rate in the country was reported in Trentino-Alto Adige. Coronavirus in Italy In Italy, the first cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were registered at the end of January 2020. Then, since the end of February, the virus started to spread among the Italian population. Data on the infected patients show that COVID-19 has hit every age group uniformly, but the mortality rate appears to be much higher for elderly patients. Death rates in Europe Despite being the fourth-largest country in Europe in terms of population size, Italy was the state with the second-highest number of deaths, preceded only by Germany, the most populated country on the continent.

Italy IT: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data was reported at 91.400 % in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 91.500 % for 2015. Italy IT: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data is updated yearly, averaging 91.700 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 92.600 % in 2010 and a record low of 91.400 % in 2016. Italy IT: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.World Bank: Health Statistics. Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Non-communicable diseases include cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases, skin diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, and congenital anomalies.; ; Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.; Weighted average;

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Italy was reported at 11.2 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Italy - Death rate, crude - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

This file contains data on cases and deaths by the new coronavirus in China and the first wave in Italy, collected since May 13. Due to the high amount of contaminated and dead launched in February 13th and April 17th, in China, we redistributed the data, maintaining the original shape of the curve. These data were used to build the epidemiological curves of the countries, aiming to enable the analysis of health management.

IT: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data was reported at 100.000 % in 2010. This stayed constant from the previous number of 100.000 % for 2009. IT: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data is updated yearly, averaging 98.100 % from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2010, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 % in 2010 and a record low of 95.200 % in 1992. IT: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Completeness of death registration is the estimated percentage of deaths that are registered with their cause of death information in the vital registration system of a country.; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository/World Health Statistics (http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.1?lang=en).; Weighted average;

Italy IT: Lifetime Risk Of Maternal Death data was reported at 0.005 % in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.005 % for 2014. Italy IT: Lifetime Risk Of Maternal Death data is updated yearly, averaging 0.006 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2015, with 26 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.011 % in 1990 and a record low of 0.005 % in 2015. Italy IT: Lifetime Risk Of Maternal Death data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.World Bank: Health Statistics. Life time risk of maternal death is the probability that a 15-year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause assuming that current levels of fertility and mortality (including maternal mortality) do not change in the future, taking into account competing causes of death.; ; WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2015; Weighted average;