(ANSA) - Rome, June 16 - Italy's population grew by only 30,000 in 2013 with deaths outnumbering births by the highest margin in history, national statistics agency Istat reported Monday. As of December 31, precisely 60,782,668 residents were registered in Italy, only 0.1% more than the year before. Of the total, some 4.9 million held foreign citizenship, accounting for 8.1% of the Italian population. Last year Istat registered 514,308 births compared to 600,744 deaths. The negative difference of 86,436 was the highest in Italian history.

