In the previous two years, there was a negative trend: in 2020, the population decreased by about 500 thousand people, in 2021 – by almost 300 thousand people.
The population of the European Union (EU) rose in 2022 for the first time in two years, following a decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is reported by the EU Statistical Office (Eurostat).
At the end of 2022, the EU population amounted to 448.4 million people compared to 446.7 a year earlier, while the natural decline was offset by immigration.
“The intensification of migration flows after the end of the pandemic, as well as the massive influx of displaced people from Ukraine, provided a significant share of the increase,” the document says.
It is noted that from 2005 to 2022, the population growth in the EU in absolute terms was about 0.8 million people per year, compared with an average of about 3 million people per year in the 1960s.
The most active growth was achieved in Germany (+1.12 million people), and the weakest indicator in Latvia (+7,251 people).
According to Eurostat, almost half (47%) of the total EU population lives in three countries – Germany, France and Italy.
At the same time, in seven countries during the specified period, the population decreased: to a greater extent – in Italy (by 179,419 people), to the smallest extent – in Slovakia (by 5,920 people).
In Ukraine, every year, since 1994, the population has been gradually decreasing, and we are no longer 52 million. Demographers suggest that now the number of Ukrainians is somewhere around 34-35 million.
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