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: 150° Anniversary of Italian Unity Statistically Italy has: 60,9 million of inhabitants 4,6 million of immigrants 1.704,4 billion € of Public Debt 94,6 million of credit cards 2,0 million Kg of pasta eaten everyday 24,0 million of permanent workers 3,0 million of temporary workers 2,1 million of unemployed 23,0 € net – Employee’s average earnings per day 247,0 € net - Parliamentary’s average earnings per day € net - Soccer player Ibrahimovic earnings per day 96,4 million of mobile phones 19,2 million of Facebook profiles 2

From OECD 2011 – Society at a Glance – OECD Social indicators Fewer than 58% of working-age Italians are in work, the fourth lowest rate in the OECD, partly because of the low labour force participation of women. The OECD average is 66%. Italians have the second highest life expectancy in the OECD after Japan, at 81.5 years. The OECD average is 79.3 Italian women spend 3 hours 40 minutes per day more on unpaid work (cooking, cleaning, caring, etc.) than Italian men, the greatest gender gap in the OECD after Mexico, Turkey and Portugal. On average, across the OECD, women spend 2 and a half hours per day more than men on unpaid work. 3

APART FROM THE STATISTICS… OUR ITALY: EXTREMES LIVING TOGETHER 4

1 Official LanguageDialects spoken all around the Country 5

Ancient ArtContemporary Art 6

Sea & SunFog & Smog 7

FastSlow 8

Luxury & TemptationTrash & Decay 9

Taxed WorkNon-Taxed Work 10

150 years of hopes and plans, 150 years of changes, suffering and solidarity, 150 years to form the Italians. 11