All things you need to know about living in Puglia
Across Puglia's 6 provinces, ISTAT counts 1,427 Brazilians: 0.04% of the region's 3,877,395 residents.
ISTAT counts 155,066 residents with a foreign citizenship in Puglia, 4.00% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (1,427), Germans (1,215), Britons (1,183).
Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Brazilians in Puglia has risen, from 1,338 to 1,427 (+7%).
Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 5.9% of Puglia's population was born outside Italy: 4.1% outside the EU and 1.8% elsewhere in the EU. This broad-group split isn't comparable per-nationality to the citizenship figures above. See about the data.
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 29,155 | 0.75% |
| Albania | 19,669 | 0.51% |
| Bulgaria | 4,234 | 0.11% |
| Ukraine | 4,213 | 0.11% |
| Poland | 2,663 | 0.07% |
| Brazil | 1,427 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 1,215 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 1,183 | 0.03% |
| Russia | 919 | 0.02% |
| France | 793 | 0.02% |
| Spain | 731 | 0.02% |
| United States | 553 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 550 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 379 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 327 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 297 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 287 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 234 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 214 | 0.01% |
| Hungary | 182 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 173 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 159 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 158 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 139 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 137 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 133 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 113 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 100 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 87 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 82 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 63 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 59 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 31 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 30 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 27 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 23 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 22 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 21 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 15 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 14 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 6 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,649,319 | 94.12% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 70,539 | 1.82% |
| Born outside the EU | 157,537 | 4.06% |
Brazilians over time
Provinces by Brazilians share
Tax regimes
231 of Puglia’s 257 comuni qualify for the 7% pensioner regime — 90% of the region’s towns, but 52% of the people who live in it.
The two differ because the regime caps comune size: the towns it excludes are the biggest ones. Where you’d actually be living matters more than how many towns are on the list.
Which towns, and how the 7% pensioner regime works →Seismic zones of its comuni
A region has no seismic zone of its own: each of its comuni has one. Here is how the 257 comuni of Puglia are classified.
- Zone 1 (highest hazard)10
- Zone 258
- Zone 347
- Zone 4 (lowest hazard)142
Counts are comuni, not residents or land area. The zone is the legal classification each Region gave its comuni, not a forecast and not a verdict on any building. It has nothing to do with the 7% pensioner regime’s “seismic” routes, which depend on the 2009 and 2016–17 earthquake areas, not on a comune’s zone. See the map →