A survey conducted among Italian women in 2018 reveals that 14.9 percent of respondents resorted to cosmetic surgery once in their life. Moreover, two percent of interviewees declared that they underwent cosmetic surgical procedures more than once.
Between 2011 and 2017, the total number of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures performed in Italy almost tripled, before decreasing slightly in 2018. In 2017, Italy was the fourth country worldwide with the highest number of breast augmentation procedures performed.
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Quotidiano Sanità. (March 8, 2018). Have you ever resorted to cosmetic surgery? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/
Quotidiano Sanità. "Have you ever resorted to cosmetic surgery?." Chart. March 8, 2018. Statista. Accessed August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/
Quotidiano Sanità. (2018). Have you ever resorted to cosmetic surgery?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/
Quotidiano Sanità. "Have You Ever Resorted to Cosmetic Surgery?." Statista, Statista Inc., 8 Mar 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/
Quotidiano Sanità, Have you ever resorted to cosmetic surgery? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/ (last visited August 25, 2024)
Have you ever resorted to cosmetic surgery? [Graph], Quotidiano Sanità, March 8, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/815159/share-of-women-having-cosmetic-surgery-in-italy/