Foreign residents in Calabria

Across Calabria's 5 provinces, ISTAT counts 1,946 Argentinians — 0.11% of the region's 1,834,646 residents.

Across the nationalities we track, Calabria counts 7,483 foreign residents in total, 0.41% of the population. The largest groups are Argentinians (1,946), Brazilians (1,260), Russians (1,154).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Argentinians in Calabria has risen, from 241 to 1,946 (+707%).

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 8.2% of Calabria's population was born outside Italy — 5.5% outside the EU and 2.7% elsewhere in the EU. This broad-group split isn't comparable per-nationality to the citizenship figures above — see about the data.