This statistic shows the total population of the European Union from 2010 to 2023. The population is based on data from the most recent census adjusted by the components of population change produced since the last census, or based on population registers. At the beginning of 2023, the total population of the European Union amounted to approximately 448.38 million inhabitants. See figures for the total population by continent here. The global population The global population is rapidly increasing. Between 1990 and 2015, the global population has increased by around 2 billion people, and it is estimated to have increased by another 1 billion people by 2030. Asia is the continent in the world with the largest population, followed by Africa and Europe. Asia has the two most populous nations in the world: China and India. In 2014, the combined population in China and India amounted to more than 2.6 billion people. The total population in Europe is around 741 million people. As of 2014, about 10.2 percent of the global population lived in Europe. Europe is the continent with the second highest life expectancy at birth in the world. Born in 2013, the average European was estimated to live for around 78 years. Stable economies as well as developing and emerging markets in Europe provide for good living conditions for foreign nationals; seven of the top twenty countries in the world with the largest gross domestic product in 2024 are located in Europe.

The annual population growth in the European Union increased by 0.4 percentage points (+1000 percent) in 2023. Therefore, the population growth in the European Union reached a peak in 2023 with 0.47 percent. Nevertheless, the last two years recorded a significantly lower population growth than the preceding years.Population growth refers to the annual change in population, and is based on the balance between birth and death rates, as well as migration.

The total population in European Union was estimated at 449.2 million people in 2024, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics. This dataset provides - European Union Population - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Graph and download economic data for Population Growth for the European Union (SPPOPGROWEUU) from 1961 to 2023 about EU, Europe, population, and rate.

The population of Europe was estimated to be 742.2 million in 2023, an increase of around 2.2 million when compared with 2013. Over 35 years between 1950 and 1985, the population of Europe grew by approximately 157.8 million. But 35 years after 1985 it was estimated to have only increased by around 38.7 million. Since the 1960s, population growth in Europe has fallen quite significantly and was even negative during the mid-1990s. While population growth has increased slightly since the low of -0.07 percent in 1998, the growth rate for 2020 was just 0.04 percent.

Which European country has the biggest population? As of 2021, the population of Russia was estimated to be approximately 145.9 million and was by far Europe's largest country in terms of population, with Turkey being the second-largest at over 85 million. While these two countries both have territory in Europe, however, they are both only partially in Europe, with the majority of their landmasses being in Asia. In terms of countries wholly located on the European continent, Germany had the highest population at 83.9 million, and was followed by the United Kingdom and France at 68.2 million and 65.4 million respectively.

Characteristics of Europe's population There are approximately 386.5 million females in Europe, compared with 361.2 million males, a difference of around 25 million. In 1950, however, the male population has grown faster than the female one, with the male population growing by 104.7 million, and the female one by 93.6 million. As of 2021, the single year of age with the highest population was 34, at 10.7 million, while in the same year there were estimated to be around 136 thousand people aged 100 or over.

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

In 2024, Germany was the leading EU country in terms of population, with around 85 million inhabitants. In 2050, approximately 89.2 million people will live in Germany, according to the forecast. See the total EU population figures for more information. The global population The global population is rapidly increasing. Between 1990 and 2015, it increased by around 2 billion people. Furthermore, it is estimated that the global population will have increased by another 1 billion by 2030. Asia is the continent with the largest population, followed by Africa and Europe. In Asia,the two most populous nations worldwide are located, China and India. In 2014, the combined population in China and India alone amounted to more than 2.6 billion people. for comparison, the total population in the whole continent of Europe is at around 741 million people. As of 2014, about 60 percent of the global population was living in Asia, with only approximately 10 percent in Europe and even less in the United States. Europe is the continent with the second-highest life expectancy at birth in the world, only barely surpassed by Northern America. In 2013, the life expectancy at birth in Europe was around 78 years. Stable economies and developing and emerging markets in European countries provide for good living conditions. Seven of the top twenty countries in the world with the largest gross domestic product in 2015 are located in Europe.

In 2020 Germany remained the largest population in the European Union with over 83 million inhabitants. In Germany, France, Spain and Italy most euorpean countries have a larger female then male population. Only in Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Serbia and Sweden consitute men the mayority of inhabitants. Germany was the largest population of both genders in Europe, with 42.1 million females and 41 million males.

Chart and table of Europe population from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Male: Age 15 to 19 data was reported at 12,134.914 Person th in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 11,953.413 Person th for 2021. European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Male: Age 15 to 19 data is updated yearly, averaging 12,240.312 Person th from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2022, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14,049.669 Person th in 2000 and a record low of 11,896.778 Person th in 2020. European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Male: Age 15 to 19 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G002: Eurostat: Population: by Sex.

European Union Population: EA 19: Male: Age Unknown data was reported at 0.000 Person th in 2021. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Person th for 2020. European Union Population: EA 19: Male: Age Unknown data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 Person th from Dec 1981 (Median) to 2021, with 40 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.839 Person th in 1999 and a record low of 0.000 Person th in 2021. European Union Population: EA 19: Male: Age Unknown data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G002: Eurostat: Population: by Sex.

Population Growth for the European Union was 0.13526 % Chg. at Annual Rate in January of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Population Growth for the European Union reached a record high of 1.26548 in January of 1960 and a record low of -0.17789 in January of 2011. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Population Growth for the European Union - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

In 2024, Russia had the largest population among European countries at 144.8 million people. The next largest countries in terms of their population size were Turkey at 87.5 million, Germany at 84.5 million, the United Kingdom at 69.1 million, and France at 66.5 million. Europe is also home to some of the world’s smallest countries, such as the microstates of Liechtenstein and San Marino, with populations of 39,870 and 33,581 respectively. Europe’s largest economies Germany was Europe’s largest economy in 2023, with a Gross Domestic Product of around 4.2 trillion Euros, while the UK and France are the second and third largest economies, at 3.2 trillion and 2.8 trillion euros respectively. Prior to the mid-2000s, Europe’s fourth-largest economy, Italy, had an economy that was of a similar sized to France and the UK, before diverging growth patterns saw the UK and France become far larger economies than Italy. Moscow and Istanbul the megacities of Europe Two cities on the eastern borders of Europe were Europe’s largest in 2023. The Turkish city of Istanbul, with a population of 15.8 million, and the Russian capital, Moscow, with a population of 12.7 million. Istanbul is arguably the world’s most famous transcontinental city with territory in both Europe and Asia and has been an important center for commerce and culture for over two thousand years. Paris was the third largest European city with a population of 11 million, with London being the fourth largest at 9.6 million.

European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 80 to 84 data was reported at 8,092.799 Person th in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 8,130.534 Person th for 2022. European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 80 to 84 data is updated yearly, averaging 7,505.678 Person th from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2023, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8,324.117 Person th in 2020 and a record low of 4,833.426 Person th in 2000. European Union Population: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 80 to 84 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G002: Eurostat: Population: by Sex.

Population ages 65 and above for the European Union was 20.78008 % of Total in January of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Population ages 65 and above for the European Union reached a record high of 20.78008 in January of 2020 and a record low of 8.84068 in January of 1950. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Population ages 65 and above for the European Union - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

This statistic shows the population growth in the EU member states in 2023, by country. In 2023, the population of Luxembourg grew by approximately 2.02 percent compared to the previous year. See the total EU population figures for more information.

The European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System (ECFAS) project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. Specifically, ECFAS will provide a much-needed solution to bolster coastal resilience to climate risk and reduce population and infrastructure exposure by monitoring and supporting disaster preparedness, two factors that are fundamental to damage prevention and recovery if a storm hits.

The ECFAS Proof-of-Concept development will run from January 2021-December 2022. The ECFAS project is a collaboration between Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori IUSS di Pavia (Italy, ECFAS Coordinator), Mercator Ocean International (France), Planetek Hellas (Greece), Collecte Localisation Satellites (France), Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (Italy), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), University of the Aegean (Greece), and EurOcean (Portugal), and is funded by the European Commission H2020 Framework Programme within the call LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme

Description of the containing files inside the Dataset.

The dataset was divided at European country level, except the Adriatic area which was extracted as a region and not on a country level due to the small size of the countries. The buffer zone of each data was 10km inland in order to be correlated with the new Copernicus product Coastal Zone LU/LC.

Specifically, the dataset includes the new Coastal LU/LC product which was implemented by the EEA and became available at the end of 2020. Additional information collected in relation to the location and characteristics of transport (road and railway) and utility networks (power plants), population density and time variability. Furthermore, some of the publicly available datasets that were used in CEMS related to the abovementioned assets were gathered such as OpenStreetMap (building footprints, road and railway network infrastructures), GeoNames (populated places but also names of administrative units, rivers and lakes, forests, hills and mountains, parks and recreational areas, etc.), the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS) and Global Human Settlement Population Grid (GHS-POP) generated by JRC. Also, the dataset contains 2 layers with statistics information regarding the population of Europe per sex and age divided in administrative units at NUTS level 3. The first layers includes information fro the whole Europe and the second layer has only the information regaridng the population at the Coastal area. Finally, the dataset includes the global database of Floods protection standars. Below there are tables which present the dataset.

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service	Resolution	Comment
Coastal LU/LC	1:10.000	A Copernicus hotspot product to monitor landscape dynamics in coastal zones
EU-Hydro - Coastline	1:30.000	EU-Hydro is a dataset for all European countries providing the coastline
Natura 2000	1: 100000	A Copernicus hotspot product to monitor important areas for nature conservation
European Settlement Map	10m	A spatial raster dataset that is mapping human settlements in Europe
Imperviousness Density	10m	The percentage of sealed area
Impervious Built-up	10m	The part of the sealed surfaces where buildings can be found
Grassland 2018	10m	A binary grassland/non-grassland product
Tree Cover Density 2018	10m	Level of tree cover density in a range from 0-100%

Joint Research Center	Resolution	Comment
Global Human Settlement Population Grid GHS-POP)	250m	Residential population estimates for target year 2015
GHS settlement model layer (GHS-SMOD)	1km	The GHS Settlement Model grid delineates and classify settlement typologies via a logic of population size, population and built-up area densities
GHS-BUILT	10m	Built-up grid derived from Sentinel-2 global image composite for reference year 2018
ENACT 2011 Population Grid (ENACT-POP R2020A)	1km	The ENACT is a population density for the European Union that take into account major daily and monthly population variations
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	-	Europe’s open power plant database
GHS functional urban areas (GHS-FUA R2019A)	1km	City and its commuting zone (area of influence of the city in terms of labour market flows)
GHS Urban Centre Database (GHS-UCDB R2019A)	1km	Urban Centres defined by specific cut-off values on resident population and built-up surface

Additional Data	Resolution	Comment
Open Street Map (OSM)	-	BF, Transportation Network, Utilities Network, Places of Interest
CEMS	-	Data from Rapid Mapping activations in Europe
GeoNames	-	Populated places, Adm. units, Hydrography, Forests, Hills/Mountains, Parks, etc.
Global Administrative Areas	-	Administrative areas of all countries, at all levels of sub-division
NUTS3 Population Age/Sex Group	-	Eurostat population by age ansd sex statistics interesected with the NUTS3 Units
FLOPROS		A global database of FLOod PROtection Standards, which comprises information in the form of the flood return period associated with protection measures, at different spatial scales

Disclaimer:

ECFAS partners provide the data "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. The ECFAS partners shall not be held liable resulting from the use of the information and data provided.

This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004211

This is a dataset containing the population of each Member State from the 2011 and 2021 censuses held by Eurostat, and the current distribution of seats in the European Parliament (EP). The population data was downloaded from the official website of Eurostat (2011: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography/population-housing-censuses/database; 2021: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Population_and_housing_census_2021_-_population_grids&stable=1#Distribution_of_European_population). The seat data was obtained from the official website of the EP (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20180126STO94114/infographic-how-many-seats-does-each-country-get-in-in-the-european-parliament).

Age Dependency Ratio: Older Dependents to Working-Age Population for the European Union was 32.39828 % of Working-Age Population in January of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Age Dependency Ratio: Older Dependents to Working-Age Population for the European Union reached a record high of 32.39828 in January of 2020 and a record low of 13.38987 in January of 1950. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Age Dependency Ratio: Older Dependents to Working-Age Population for the European Union - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

Employment to Population Ratio for the European Union was 52.74% in January of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Employment to Population Ratio for the European Union reached a record high of 53.54 in January of 2019 and a record low of 49.30 in January of 1996. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Employment to Population Ratio for the European Union - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.