{"id":257491,"date":"2025-07-11T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257491\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:55:10","slug":"eus-population-hits-record-450-million-with-numbers-driven-by-migration-eurostat-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257491\/","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s population hits record 450 million with numbers driven by migration, Eurostat says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 11\/07\/2025 &#8211; 20:09 GMT+2\u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     20:48<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Migration to the European Union pushed the bloc\u2019s population\u00a0to a record 450.4 million people last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/population-demography\/demography-population-stock-balance\/database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eurostat data released on Friday showed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has recorded more deaths than births annually since 2012, which means migration is the only driver of\u00a0population\u00a0growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The observed\u00a0population\u00a0growth can be largely attributed to the increased migratory movements post-COVID-19,&#8221; Eurostat said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the EU added 1.07 million new residents, with positive net migration of 2.3 million people compensating for a natural\u00a0decline in people of 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths last year, logged at 4.82 million, continued to outweigh the birth rate of 3.56 million.<\/p>\n<p>The trend puts Europe&#8217;s demographic challenges under the spotlight as the continent\u2019s ageing\u00a0population\u00a0and low birth rates strain the welfare systems and create labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p>France, Germany and Italy retain their positions as the EU countries with the largest populations, accounting for almost half of all the people living in bloc at 47%.<\/p>\n<p>While 19 countries recorded an uptick in population figures last year, eight saw declines.<\/p>\n<p>Malta logged the highest growth rate at 19.0 per 1,000 people, followed by Ireland with 16.3 and Luxembourg at 14.7.<\/p>\n<p>Among the countries reporting a drop in populations, Latvia recorded the steepest fall at -9.9, followed by Hungary (-4.7) and Poland and Estonia tied in third place with -3.4.<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s population\u00a0stood at 354.5 million in 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 11\/07\/2025 &#8211; 20:09 GMT+2\u2022Updated 20:48 ADVERTISEMENT Migration to the European Union pushed the bloc\u2019s population\u00a0to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,72716,21060],"class_list":{"0":"post-257491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-eurostat","13":"tag-population"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837305894474829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}