Italian populations living abroad 2019, by country of residence
Argentina was one of the main destinations for Italian emigrants, in particular in the early 1900s.
Argentina has the largest Italian population outside of Italy, with over one million Italians residing in the South American country as of 2019. This Italian community represented a fifth of all Italians residing outside the country. Moreover, the second and third biggest groups lived in European countries: Germany hosted about 830 thousand Italians, while Switzerland 650 thousand. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,