Foreign residents in Emilia-Romagna

Across Emilia-Romagna's 9 provinces, ISTAT counts 4,263 Russians — 0.10% of the region's 4,461,998 residents.

Across the nationalities we track, Emilia-Romagna counts 25,246 foreign residents in total, 0.57% of the population. The largest groups are Russians (4,263), Brazilians (4,089), Spaniards (2,439).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Russians in Emilia-Romagna has risen, from 4,060 to 4,263 (+5%).

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 15.9% of Emilia-Romagna's population was born outside Italy — 13.2% 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.