Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Short story Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Short story in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Short story has an estimated audience of 7,828,235 people in Italy.

#518among Topic in Italy#15in Literature

The average Short story fan in Italy is 42.0 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Campania, Lazio.

Category: Literature · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Short story profile in Italy.

Audience size
7.8M
in Italy
Gender
65.3%♀
34.7% male
Age
42.0
average years
Country rank
#732
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-13%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Short story fans

65.3% are female, 34.7% are male, average age 42.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

65.3%
Female
34.7%
Male
Demographic split for Short story audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female65.3%
Male34.7%
Average age42.0
Estimated audience size7,828,235
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 42.0
average years
Age distribution of the Short story audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-1917%
20-2916%
30-3918%
40-4921%
50+29%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

6.9%

of the worldwide Short story audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Short story
CountryShare
United States17.4%
Brazil7.6%
Italy6.9%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Italy average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Short story audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Short story fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Campania~1M1.12×
02Puglia~600K1.10×
03Sicilia~700K1.09×
04Aosta Valley~20K1.04×
05Lombardy~1.5M1.02×
06Tuscany~500K1.02×
07Basilicata~70K1.02×
08Emilia-Romagna~600K1.01×
09Calabria~200K1.01×
10Molise~40K1.01×
11Abruzzo~200K0.99×
12Marche~200K0.98×
13Friuli-Venezia Giulia~100K0.98×
14Veneto~600K0.97×
15Sardinia~200K0.96×
16Umbria~100K0.96×
17Lazio~900K0.95×
18Piedmont~500K0.95×
19Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~100K0.95×
20Liguria~200K0.91×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Short story. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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