The highest decreases were in Malta (−9 pp) and Cyprus (−8 pp) and the lowest in Sweden, Belgium and Spain (all −1 pp). ![]() At EU level, the decrease was 3 pp, from 23% to 20%. Over the period 2002-2022, the share of young people (aged 0 to 19 years old) decreased in all Member States. The highest increase was in Greece (+3.5 pp, from 3.7% to 7.2%) and the lowest in Sweden (+0.2 pp., from 5.2% to 5.4%). Looking more specifically at the group aged 80 and over, their share grew in all Member States, at EU level by 2.6 pp, from 3.5% in 2002 to 6.1% in 2022. In 2022, Italy and Portugal (both 24%) and Finland and Greece (both 23%) had the highest shares, while Ireland and Luxembourg (both 15%) had the lowest. The highest increase was in Finland (8 pp) and the lowest in Luxembourg (1 pp). At EU level, the increase was 5 percentage points (pp), from 16% to 21%. Over the period 2002-2022, the share of persons aged 65 and over increased in all Member States. France recorded the highest absolute increase (552 000, 0.8%) and Luxembourg the highest relative increase (3.1%, 19 000).Īn ageing population Share of those aged 80+ almost doubled between 20 Overall, ten countries showed decreases in their population during the two-year period 2020-2021, while the remaining seventeen had increases. The highest decreases in absolute terms were observed in Italy (−611 000, corresponding to −1.0%) and Poland (−304 000, −0.8%), and in relative terms in Croatia (−4.8%, −196 000) and Greece (−2.4%, −259 000). The largest relative increases were recorded in Luxembourg (43%), Malta (31%), Ireland (30%) and Cyprus (27%), while the largest relative decreases were observed in Lithuania (−20%) and Latvia (−19%).īetween 1 January 2020 and 1 January 2022, however, the population of the EU decreased by 585 000 people. Seventeen Member States showed increases in their population during this period and ten recorded decreases. At the other end of the range, the least populous EU Member States were Malta (521 000 people, corresponding to 0.1% of the EU total), Luxembourg (645 000, also 0.1%) and Cyprus (905 000, 0.2%).ĭuring the period 2001 to 2020, the total population of the EU increased from 429 million to 447 million, a growth of 4%. In total, these five Member States accounted for two thirds of the EU population. The most populous EU Member State was Germany (83.2 million, 19% of the EU total), followed by France (67.9 million, 15%), Italy (59.0 million, 13%), Spain (47.4 million, 11%) and Poland (37.7 million, 8%). On 1 January 2022, there were 446.7 million people living in the European Union (EU). ![]() A growing population until 2020 EU population growth interrupted in 2020
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