Migration, the one engine of inhabitants development within the EU | EUROtoday
SElon Eurostat, the inhabitants of the 27 nations of the European Union has elevated by 95.9 million inhabitants since 1960 to quantity to 450.4 million to 1er January 2025. The inhabitants development fee has clearly slowed down in latest a long time, from round 3 million individuals per yr on common throughout the Nineteen Sixties to 0.9 million individuals per yr on common throughout the 2005-2024 interval.
Positive till 2011, the pure steadiness of the EU inhabitants has been unfavourable since 2012, with various deaths that exceeds that of births. In 2024, it was established at – 1.2 million, with 4.8 million deaths and three.6 million births, but it surely was greater than offset by a optimistic migratory steadiness of two.3 million individuals which in the end allowed the whole EU inhabitants to develop by 1.1 million.
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In element, six nations of the European Union (Ireland, France, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Sweden) displayed in 2024 a optimistic pure steadiness of their inhabitants, with various births larger than that of deaths. Denmark introduced a zero pure steadiness final yr, whereas 20 EU nations have recorded a unfavourable pure steadiness of their inhabitants, the best ranges being noticed in Latvia (- 7.4 for 1,000 inhabitants), adopted by Bulgaria (- 7.3) and Lithuania (- 6.4).
Read too Demography: Lessons to be drawn from Japan On the opposite hand, except Latvia, all of the EU nations displayed a optimistic migratory steadiness in 2024, the best charges being present in Malta (18.7 for 1,000 inhabitants), Portugal (13.4) and Ireland (12.8) and the bottom, in Slovakia and Hungary (0.4 for 1,000 inhabitants), in Poland (0.9) (1) and in France (2.2).
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