ITALY STATS SHEET

Changes of PM

29 1870-1922

due to the roman question

25% could vote

1901-1911

1,500 strikes

1910-1911

25,000 die of cholera in naples

income per head

2x north than south

following franchise extension

70% voters illiterate

seats owed to catholics 1913

228/318

in 4 offensives in 1915

62,000 died

court martialled for desertion

290,000

military tribunals issued

4,000 death sentences

deaths from hunger related illnesses

100,000

At caporetto

10,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, 300,000 taken prisoner, 400,000 just vanished

ww1 deaths

600,000

ww1 debt

23 billion lire

members of socialist unions

250,000 1918, 2 million 1920

ww1 unemployment

2 million

political reform

increased voters by 11 million

PSI in 1919

32% votes

fascist membership June 1919

3000

fascist violence Jan - May 1921

killed 200 wounded 1,000

fascist membership 1921

200,000

fascist membership 1922

320,000

in fascist trade unions

½ million

fascist membership 1923

783,000

1924 elections

64%, 275 seats

fascist membership 1925

938,000

antifascists left

10,000

Ballilla 1924

1924

OND membership 1939

40 million

fascist paper circulation

100,000

Il duce photos

30 million, 2,500 poses

fascist exhibition visitors

4 million

hollywood films

87% box office takings

OVRA informers

5,000

files on italians

130,000

Special tribunals cases

13,547

Special tribunals years in jail

27,742

Sent to confino

10,000

death sentences pre ww2

9

Jewish population

45,000 1%

Jews left

6,000 1938-40

Senators not PNF 1932

148

PNF thrown out

60,000 by 1929

PNF left

110,000

Giurati purges and reokaces

120,000 , 800,000

Lira revalued to

92.46

Railway electrified

5,000km

autarky spending

30 billion lire 1934 to 60 billion 1938

Grain production north and central

up 50%

Welfare spending

6.9% in 1930 to 20.6% in 1940

Wheat production

5.39 million tonnes 1925 to 7.27 million tonnes 1935

Land reclaimed

5% of 475 million ha claimed

Malaria

down 50%

Left rural areas

½ million

The Church gets

750 million and 1 billion in state bonds

Catholic action membership

25,000, 388,000 by 1939

Corfu incident

got 50 million lire

Men invaded abyssinia

400,000

settling in abyssinia

130,000

Lira devalued by

40%

Budget deficit increases

2.5bn to 16bn

abyssinians died

500,000

soldiers sent to spain

50,000

spanish civil war cost

14 billion lire

military spending

80% of the state defecit

Pact of steel demands

170 tonnes of goods

surrendered 1941

380,000

In greece

32,000 killed, 100,000 wounded

oil from romania

1.5 million tonnes

Steel production decreases

to 17 million

Turin strike

100,000

Political arrests

1,400 March-June 1943

Allied bombs in Rome

killed 1,500

Salo paid germany

7 billion a month

jews from italian camps

7,500

GNR recruited

RSI army

200,000 by 1944

Partisans involved

82,000 June 1944

ww2 deaths

500,000

referudum for a republic

12.7 million to 10.7 million

preclappio tomb

over 800,000 a year

government wages cut

12% 1930

extra food costs

400 lire a year

siezed fiume

2,000

socialist union membership

250,000 1918, 2 million 1920

left the south

200,000 a year 1901-13

italians in new york

600,000

Libya deaths

5,000

Celebrated unification in a stadium

1861

in agricultural cooperatives

218,000

north ww1 economy

up 20%

ww1 national debt

84.9 billion June 1919

ww1 workers wages

fell 25%

Fiat

25,000 vehicles 1918

pacification of libya

1/3 killed or starved

ww2 equipment

produced ½ they needed

ww2 armoured vehicles

had ½ they needed

ww2 economy

operating at 25% of potential

national republic guard

200,000 by 1944

italian jews executed

7,000