Economy Tips

• According to the International Monetary Fund in 2008 it was the seventh world economy and the fourth of Europe. It belongs to the G8, to the European Union.

• The industrial activity has been the motor of the Italian development, and the current axis of its economy.

• Production of fruits like pears, peaches and apples. The second nation that produce olive oil in the world.

• The cultivation of the vine locates at Italy to the head of the world production of wines (68,6 million hl), grateful internationally for its quality.
• Foreign commerce: it is the sixth country of the world in export volume in 2008 with 546,900 million dollars

• Their PIB "per layer" it is of 29. 200 thousand million dollars. It is the 19º world country with higher index of human development

• Milan and Rome are the 11ª and the 18ª more expensive cities of the world