EU Population
Annual population and demographic change balance for the EU, the Euro area, and all 27 member states, spanning continuously from 1960 to early 2026.
| Indicator | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | |
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| Population on 1 January29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average population29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total population change29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Natural change29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net migration29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Live births29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths29 |
Latest reading
European Union stood at 451,990,314 Persons in 2026. That is +0.2% from 2025. The series on this page is annual and runs from 1960 to 2026. Source: Eurostat.
- Latest
- 451,990,314 Persons
- 2026
- vs previous period
- +0.2%
- 2025
About this data
Annual population and demographic change balance for the EU, the Euro area, and all 27 member states, spanning continuously from 1960 to early 2026. This is the longest time series among all European data on the site. ONE EXCEPTION must be noted: the Euro area series is only available from 2014, as Eurostat calculates the total population for the current 21-country composition only from that year onward; for a longer series, refer to the EU aggregate (from 1960) or sum the individual countries. The table is structured according to the standard demographic balancing equation: the population at the beginning of the following year minus the population at the beginning of the current year equals total change, which in turn equals natural change (live births minus deaths) plus net migration. Placing these four series side by side clearly reveals Europe's demographic turning point: the EU's natural change has turned negative, meaning deaths exceed births, so the EU population currently grows solely thanks to migration. Eurostat's 'net migration' is a derived figure calculated as total population change minus natural change, and therefore incorporates statistical adjustments (such as those following population censuses), resulting in occasional abnormal jumps for certain countries. Germany lacks demographic change data for twelve scattered years between 1968 and 1982, while France only has data from 1982 (population) and 1998 (change) because Eurostat previously recorded only metropolitan France, a different territorial scope that cannot be linked into the same series. A note on data verification: for individual countries, the difference in population between the start of two consecutive years equals the total change of the intervening year, but at the EU-wide level, thirteen years do not match—this occurs because following each census, the respective countries adjust their population levels without distributing those adjustments across the change series, causing the step changes to accumulate when aggregated. Source: Eurostat.
