Foreign residents in Sicilia

Across Sicilia's 9 provinces, ISTAT counts 2,021 Argentinians — 0.04% of the region's 4,787,390 residents.

Across the nationalities we track, Sicilia counts 13,933 foreign residents in total, 0.29% of the population. The largest groups are Argentinians (2,021), Germans (1,789), Russians (1,527).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Argentinians in Sicilia has risen, from 328 to 2,021 (+516%).

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 6.4% of Sicilia's population was born outside Italy — 4.3% outside the EU and 2.1% elsewhere in the EU. This broad-group split isn't comparable per-nationality to the citizenship figures above — see about the data.