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The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s.
In addition, after centuries of net emigration, from the 1980s Italy has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history.
According to the Italian government, there were 4, 570, 317 foreign residents in Italy as of January 2011.
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