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  1. Annual population change of selected European countries 2023

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    Updated Sep 2, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Annual population change of selected European countries 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/686020/population-of-europe-by-country-and-gender/
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    Sep 2, 2024
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    In 2023, Ukraine had the fastest growing population in Europe. As a result of Ukrainian citizens who had fled Russia's invasion of the eastern European country in 2022 returning to the country in 2023, Ukraine's population grew by 3.68 percent compared to 2022. Excluding this special case, the European countries which saw the greatest population growth in 2023 were Luxembourg, Norway, and Ireland. Overall, Europe's population declined by 0.09 percent in 2022, with this varying by region from a 0.31 percent decline in eastern Europe to an increase of 0.33 percent in northern Europe. All of the countries which saw the largest declines in their population in 2023 were central and eastern European countries which had hosted large numbers of Ukrainian refugees in 2022. Moldova, one of Ukraine's closest neighbours, saw its population decline by 3.6 percent, while Poland's population declined by 2.2 percent, and Slovakia's by 1.8 percent.

  2. Population growth rate in Europe 1950-2023

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    Updated Sep 2, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Population growth rate in Europe 1950-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1251591/population-growth-rate-in-europe/
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    Sep 2, 2024
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    Europe
    Description

    The population of Europe decreased by approximately 0.09 percent in 2023, falling to an overall total of approximately 743.5 million people. Since 1961, Europe's population growth rate has never exceeded one percent, and was even declining in the late 1990s and between 2020 and 2023.

  3. Countries with the highest population decline rate 2024

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    Updated Apr 16, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Countries with the highest population decline rate 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264689/countries-with-the-highest-population-decline-rate/
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    Apr 16, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    In the Cook Islands in 2024, the population decreased by about 2.24 percent compared to the previous year, making it the country with the highest population decline rate in 2024. Of the 20 countries with the highest rate of population decline, the majority are island nations, where emigration rates are high (especially to Australia, New Zealand, and the United States), or they are located in Eastern Europe, which suffers from a combination of high emigration rates and low birth rates.

  4. D

    Who fears and who welcomes population decline? [Dataset]

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    Updated Feb 13, 2023
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    H.P Van Dalen; K. Henkens; H.P Van Dalen; K. Henkens (2023). Who fears and who welcomes population decline? [Dataset] [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.34894/XAZOO7
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    doc(413696), application/x-stata(396361), docx(40530), doc(41984)Available download formats
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    Feb 13, 2023
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    Authors
    H.P Van Dalen; K. Henkens; H.P Van Dalen; K. Henkens
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    European countries are experiencing population decline and the tacit assumption in most analyses is that the decline may have detrimental welfare effects. In this paper we use a survey among the population in the Netherlands to discover whether population decline is always met with fear. A number of results stand out: population size preferences differ by geographic proximity: at a global level the majority of respondents favors a (global) population decline, but closer to home one supports a stationary population. Population decline is clearly not always met with fear: 31 percent would like the population to decline at the national level and they generally perceive decline to be accompanied by immaterial welfare gains (improvement environment) as well as material welfare losses (tax increases, economic stagnation). In addition to these driving forces it appears that the attitude towards immigrants is a very strong determinant at all geographical levels: immigrants seem to be a stronger fear factor than population decline.

  5. Population projections for Europe 2023-2100

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Population projections for Europe 2023-2100 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/875955/population-of-europe-forecast/
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    Jun 25, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2022
    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    The population of Europe is expected to fall from ***** million in 2023 to just ***** million people by 2100, in the medium-variant scenario provided in this projection. In the scenario where the population declines even further, the population of Europe may fall to as low as ***** million by 2100, while in the high-variant projection, the population will increase to approximately ***** million.

  6. Population of Europe 1950-2023

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    Updated Sep 2, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Population of Europe 1950-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1106711/population-of-europe/
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    Sep 2, 2024
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
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    Europe
    Description

    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.

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    Living on the edge - circadian habitat usage in pre-weaning European hares...

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    Updated Jun 4, 2023
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    Ulrich Voigt; Ursula Siebert (2023). Living on the edge - circadian habitat usage in pre-weaning European hares (Lepus europaeus) in an intensively used agricultural area [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222205
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    Jun 4, 2023
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    Authors
    Ulrich Voigt; Ursula Siebert
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    Over the last decades, the European hare (Lepus europaeus) has become the subject of many interdisciplinary studies due to the sharp Europe-wide population decline. In European hares, the first stage of life until weaning and the subsequent dispersal have been sparsely studied, in particular, habitat selection, movements and survival rate, as juveniles´ precocial lifestyle is dominated by concealment, motionlessness and inconspicuousness. In this study, free-living juvenile European hares (leverets) were detected systematically by thermography (n = 394), radio-tagged or marked (n = 122) from birth until the fifth week of life to research their habitat usage and pre-dispersal movements. The day-resting places and night locations, as well as the distance moved by leverets with aging, were evaluated by generalized linear mixed effect models. In addition, the habitat preference was assessed by a conservative use-availability analysis. Up to the fifth week of life, 30.5% of all leverets used cultivated areas in the daytime. In contrast, the remaining 69.4% animals inhabitated linear or small planar structures in the daytime, with the edges of field tracks, hedges and some ruderal structures clearly being preferred. At nighttime, 93% of all juveniles, which occupied linear structures in the daytime, used the adjoining fields up to 20 m away from the next linear structure. Nocturnal distances of more than 60 m to the next edge rarely occurred before the end of the pre-weaning phase. The time of day and age have a significant influence on the distance moved by juvenile hares. With increasing age, leverets moved less during the day and roamed further at night. The results are largely consistent with the behavioral patterns found in the few previous studies on pre-weaning European hares and show the importance of hiding places for leverets in early life stages. This study should contribute to a better understanding of behavior in juvenile life-history stages of European hares that may help to identify vulnerable phases in their lifecycle. In addition, the findings can refine existing population models and improve conservation efforts.

  8. Total population worldwide 1950-2100

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    Updated Apr 8, 2025
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    Statista Research Department (2025). Total population worldwide 1950-2100 [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Ftopics%2F13342%2Faging-populations%2F%23XgboD02vawLKoDs%2BT%2BQLIV8B6B4Q9itA
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    Apr 8, 2025
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    Statista Research Department
    Area covered
    World
    Description

    The world population surpassed eight billion people in 2022, having doubled from its figure less than 50 years previously. Looking forward, it is projected that the world population will reach nine billion in 2038, and 10 billion in 2060, but it will peak around 10.3 billion in the 2080s before it then goes into decline. Regional variations The global population has seen rapid growth since the early 1800s, due to advances in areas such as food production, healthcare, water safety, education, and infrastructure, however, these changes did not occur at a uniform time or pace across the world. Broadly speaking, the first regions to undergo their demographic transitions were Europe, North America, and Oceania, followed by Latin America and Asia (although Asia's development saw the greatest variation due to its size), while Africa was the last continent to undergo this transformation. Because of these differences, many so-called "advanced" countries are now experiencing population decline, particularly in Europe and East Asia, while the fastest population growth rates are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, the roughly two billion difference in population between now and the 2080s' peak will be found in Sub-Saharan Africa, which will rise from 1.2 billion to 3.2 billion in this time (although populations in other continents will also fluctuate). Changing projections The United Nations releases their World Population Prospects report every 1-2 years, and this is widely considered the foremost demographic dataset in the world. However, recent years have seen a notable decline in projections when the global population will peak, and at what number. Previous reports in the 2010s had suggested a peak of over 11 billion people, and that population growth would continue into the 2100s, however a sooner and shorter peak is now projected. Reasons for this include a more rapid population decline in East Asia and Europe, particularly China, as well as a prolongued development arc in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  9. Global population 1800-2100, by continent

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    Updated Jul 4, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Global population 1800-2100, by continent [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Fstatistics%2F997040%2Fworld-population-by-continent-1950-2020%2F%23XgboDwS6a1rKoGJjSPEePEUG%2FVFd%2Bik%3D
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    Jul 4, 2024
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    Area covered
    World
    Description

    The world's population first reached one billion people in 1803, and reach eight billion in 2023, and will peak at almost 11 billion by the end of the century. Although it took thousands of years to reach one billion people, it did so at the beginning of a phenomenon known as the demographic transition; from this point onwards, population growth has skyrocketed, and since the 1960s the population has increased by one billion people every 12 to 15 years. The demographic transition sees a sharp drop in mortality due to factors such as vaccination, sanitation, and improved food supply; the population boom that follows is due to increased survival rates among children and higher life expectancy among the general population; and fertility then drops in response to this population growth. Regional differences The demographic transition is a global phenomenon, but it has taken place at different times across the world. The industrialized countries of Europe and North America were the first to go through this process, followed by some states in the Western Pacific. Latin America's population then began growing at the turn of the 20th century, but the most significant period of global population growth occurred as Asia progressed in the late-1900s. As of the early 21st century, almost two thirds of the world's population live in Asia, although this is set to change significantly in the coming decades. Future growth The growth of Africa's population, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, will have the largest impact on global demographics in this century. From 2000 to 2100, it is expected that Africa's population will have increased by a factor of almost five. It overtook Europe in size in the late 1990s, and overtook the Americas a decade later. In contrast to Africa, Europe's population is now in decline, as birth rates are consistently below death rates in many countries, especially in the south and east, resulting in natural population decline. Similarly, the population of the Americas and Asia are expected to go into decline in the second half of this century, and only Oceania's population will still be growing alongside Africa. By 2100, the world's population will have over three billion more than today, with the vast majority of this concentrated in Africa. Demographers predict that climate change is exacerbating many of the challenges that currently hinder progress in Africa, such as political and food instability; if Africa's transition is prolonged, then it may result in further population growth that would place a strain on the region's resources, however, curbing this growth earlier would alleviate some of the pressure created by climate change.

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    1841|GENERAL POPULATION SURVEY

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    Updated Feb 1, 2023
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    Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (2023). 1841|GENERAL POPULATION SURVEY [Dataset]. https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/https-datos-gob-es-catalogo-ea0022266-1506referendum-sobre-la-alianza-atlantica-iv?locale=en
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    Feb 1, 2023
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    http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/ES/2_bancodatos/Productos.htmlhttp://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/ES/2_bancodatos/Productos.html

    Description
    • Opinion on the risks of population decline in Europe and Spain.
    • Opinion on the effects of the decline in the birth rate in Spain.
    • Opinion on the measures to be taken to encourage Spanish families to have more children.
    • Opinion on the ideal age of marriage. Attitude to premarital and sexual relations.
    • Opinion on cohabitation.
    • Reasons that influence a couple to live together without getting married.
    • Reasons that influence for a couple to marry.
    • Degree of satisfaction with marriage.
    • Opinion on factors that influence the success of a marriage. Attitude to divorce.
    • Opinion on the grounds for divorce.
    • Ideal number of children.
    • Opinions about family and children. Attitude to motherhood of single women.
    • Opinion on the reasons for not wanting to have children.
    • Use of contraceptive methods.
    • Reasons for non-use of contraceptives.
    • Opinion on the reasons for a married woman to work outside the home.
    • Characteristics of the interviewee's home.
    • Scale of satisfaction with housing. Attitudes to the ageing of society.
    • Opinions before retirement. Attitudes to euthanasia.
    • Frequency with which the interviewee deals with the subject of death. Attitude to incineration. Predisposition to emigrate.
    • Opinion on immigrants and political refugees.
    • Stereotypes of Ibero-Americans, Arabs and Africans.
  11. f

    Number of detected and radio-tracked animals.

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    xls
    Updated Jun 5, 2023
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    Ulrich Voigt; Ursula Siebert (2023). Number of detected and radio-tracked animals. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222205.t002
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    Jun 5, 2023
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    Ulrich Voigt; Ursula Siebert
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Number of detected and radio-tracked animals.

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    Data from: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees

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    Updated Feb 8, 2024
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    Sydney A. Cameron; Jeffrey D. Lozier; James P. Strange; Jonathan B. Koch; Nils Cordes; Leellen F. Solter; Terry L. Griswold (2024). Data from: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1529234
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    Feb 8, 2024
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    USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research
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    Sydney A. Cameron; Jeffrey D. Lozier; James P. Strange; Jonathan B. Koch; Nils Cordes; Leellen F. Solter; Terry L. Griswold
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Bumble bees (Bombus) are vitally important pollinators of wild plants and agricultural crops worldwide. Fragmentary observations, however, have suggested population declines in several North American species. Despite rising concern over these observations in the United States, highlighted in a recent National Academy of Sciences report, a national assessment of the geographic scope and possible causal factors of bumble bee decline is lacking. Here, we report results of a 3-y interdisciplinary study of changing distributions, population genetic structure, and levels of pathogen infection in bumble bee populations across the United States. We compare current and historical distributions of eight species, compiling a database of >73,000 museum records for comparison with data from intensive nationwide surveys of >16,000 specimens. We show that the relative abundances of four species have declined by up to 96% and that their surveyed geographic ranges have contracted by 23–87%, some within the last 20 y. We also show that declining populations have significantly higher infection levels of the microsporidian pathogen Nosema bombi and lower genetic diversity compared with co-occurring populations of the stable (nondeclining) species. Higher pathogen prevalence and reduced genetic diversity are, thus, realistic predictors of these alarming patterns of decline in North America, although cause and effect remain uncertain. Bumble bees (Bombus) are integral wild pollinators within native plant communities throughout temperate ecosystems, and recent domestication has boosted their economic importance in crop pollination to a level surpassed only by the honey bee. Their robust size, long tongues, and buzz-pollination behavior (high-frequency buzzing to release pollen from flowers) significantly increase the efficiency of pollen transfer in multibillion dollar crops such as tomatoes and berries. Disturbing reports of bumble bee population declines in Europe have recently spilled over into North America, fueling environmental and economic concerns of global decline. However, the evidence for large-scale range reductions across North America is lacking. Many reports of decline are unpublished, and the few published studies are limited to independent local surveys in northern California/southern Oregon, Ontario, Canada, and Illinois. Furthermore, causal factors leading to the alleged decline of bumble bee populations in North America remain speculative. One compelling but untested hypothesis for the cause of decline in the United States entails the spread of a putatively introduced pathogen, Nosema bombi, which is an obligate intracellular microsporidian parasite found commonly in bumble bees throughout Europe but largely unstudied in North America. Pathogenic effects of N. bombi may vary depending on the host species and reproductive caste and include reductions in colony growth and individual life span and fitness. Population genetic factors could also play a role in Bombus population decline. For instance, small effective population sizes and reduced gene flow among fragmented habitats can result in losses of genetic diversity with negative consequences, and the detrimental impacts of these genetic factors can be especially intensified in bees. Population genetic studies of Bombus are rare worldwide. A single study in the United States identified lower genetic diversity and elevated genetic differentiation (FST) among Illinois populations of the putatively declining B. pensylvanicus relative to those of a codistributed stable species. Similar patterns have been observed in comparative studies of some European species, but most investigations have been geographically restricted and based on limited sampling within and among populations. Although the investigations to date have provided important information on the increasing rarity of some bumble bee species in local populations, the different survey protocols and limited geographic scope of these studies cannot fully capture the general patterns necessary to evaluate the underlying processes or overall gravity of declines. Furthermore, valid tests of the N. bombi hypothesis and its risk to populations across North America call for data on its geographic distribution and infection prevalence among species. Likewise, testing the general importance of population genetic factors in bumble bee decline requires genetic comparisons derived from sampling of multiple stable and declining populations on a large geographic scale. From such range-wide comparisons, we provide incontrovertible evidence that multiple Bombus species have experienced sharp population declines at the national level. We also show that declining populations are associated with both high N. bombi infection levels and low genetic diversity. This data was used in the paper "Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of United States of America. For more information about this dataset contact: Sydney A. Cameron: scameron@life.illinois.edu James Strange: James.Strange@ars.usda.gov Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Data from: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees (Data Dictionary). File Name: meta.xmlResource Description: This is an XML data dictionary for Data from: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees.Resource Title: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees (DWC Archive). File Name: occurrence.csvResource Description: File modified to remove fields with no recorded values.Resource Title: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees (DWC Archive). File Name: dwca-usda-ars-patternsofwidespreaddecline-bumblebees-v1.1.zipResource Description: Data from: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees -- this is a Darwin Core Archive file. The Darwin Core Archive is a zip file that contains three documents.

    The occurrence data is stored in the occurrence.txt file. The metadata that describes the columns of this document is called meta.xml. This document is also the data dictionary for this dataset. The metadata that describes the dataset, including author and contact information for this dataset is called eml.xml.

    Find the data files at https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usda-ars-patternsofwidespreaddecline-bumblebees

  13. Data from: Inter-annual variability and long-term trends in breeding success...

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    Updated May 30, 2022
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    Kevin A. Wood; Julia L. Newth; Geoff M. Hilton; Bart A. Nolet; Eileen C. Rees; Kevin A. Wood; Julia L. Newth; Geoff M. Hilton; Bart A. Nolet; Eileen C. Rees (2022). Data from: Inter-annual variability and long-term trends in breeding success in a declining population of migratory swans [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.65k7g
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    Kevin A. Wood; Julia L. Newth; Geoff M. Hilton; Bart A. Nolet; Eileen C. Rees; Kevin A. Wood; Julia L. Newth; Geoff M. Hilton; Bart A. Nolet; Eileen C. Rees
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    Population declines among migratory Arctic-breeding birds are a growing concern for conservationists. To inform the conservation of these declining populations, we need to understand how demographic rates such as breeding success are influenced by combinations of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. In this study we examined inter-annual variation and long-term trends in two aspects of the breeding success of a migratory herbivore, the Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii, which is currently undergoing a population decline: 1) the percentage of young within the wintering population and 2) mean brood size. We used an information-theoretic approach to test how these two measures of productivity were influenced over a 26 yr period by 12 potential explanatory variables, encompassing both environmental (e.g. temperature) and intrinsic (e.g. pair-bond duration) factors. Swan productivity exhibited sensitivity to both types of explanatory variable. Fewer young were observed on the wintering grounds in years in which the breeding period (May to September) was colder and predator (Arctic fox) abundance was higher. The percentage of young within the wintering population also showed negative density-dependence. Inter-annual variance in mean swan brood size was best explained by a model comprised of the negative degree days during the swan breeding period, mean pair-bond duration of all paired swans (i.e. mean pair duration), and an interaction between these two variables. In particular, mean pair duration had a strong positive effect on mean brood size. However, we found no long-term directional trend in either measure of breeding success, despite the recent decline in the NW European population. Our results highlight that inter-annual variability in breeding success is sensitive to the combined effects of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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    Data from: The decline of ground-nesting birds in Europe: do we need to...

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    Updated Oct 24, 2024
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    Barry John McMahon (2024). The decline of ground-nesting birds in Europe: do we need to manage predation in addition to habitat? [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t1g1jwt9k
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    Oct 24, 2024
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    Barry John McMahon
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    Europe
    Description

    Bird populations are declining globally with losses recorded in many European breeding birds. Habitat management measures have not resulted in a widespread reversal of these declines. We analysed national bird population trends from ten European countries (France, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK) in relation to the species’ nesting strategy (‘ground-nesting' or ‘other’), Annex I designation (‘designated’ or ‘not designated’) and association with agricultural habitats for breeding (‘associated’ or ‘not associated’). For each country in our dataset, we also defined the following factors: farming intensity; predator community complexity; and predator control effort. Our results showed additive effects of nesting strategy, designation, and breeding habitats on the likelihood of population decline. Ground-nesting birds were 86% more likely to decline than birds with other nesting strategies. Annex I designated species of the Birds Directive were 50% less likely to decline than non-designated birds. Birds breeding primarily in agricultural habitats were more likely to decline than birds breeding in other habitats, interactively with farming intensity. Homogenous trends across Europe (i.e., trends in two or more countries that were either not declining in all countries or declining in all countries) indicate that the probability of population decline was related to nesting strategy and breeding habitat, with ground-nesting birds being 15.6 times more likely than other birds to have a declining trend across Europe, and birds nesting in agricultural habitat being 17.8 times more likely than birds nesting in other habitats to have a declining trend across Europe. Our results highlight a widespread challenge, therefore widespread instruments (e.g. legislation, economic policies, agri-environment schemes) will be required to reserve these declines. Ground-nesting species requirements can be complex and multiple strategies will be needed to restore populations including the development of predation management tools. Methods Many countries provide data to the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS). We explored the PECBMS web page and the links included therein for each country, to identify if national data on population trends for each species could be obtained. Finally, we obtained national trends data for 10 countries, namely France (FR), Hungary (HU), Ireland (IE), the Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Spain (ES), Sweden (SE), Switzerland (CH) and the UK (UK). Specifically, common bird species trends in France were obtained from the monitoring programs coordinated by the Natural History Museum (http://www.vigienature.fr/fr/resultats-especes-3367). These data provided a 20-year trend (1998-2018) for each species. Hungary data from the Monitoring Centre of the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association were available at https://mmm.mme.hu/charts/trends and provided species trends for the period 1999-2021. Data from Ireland were available at https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM115.pdf and provided trends for 1998-2016 for each species. Netherlands data were obtained from the monitoring programs carried out by SOVON, the Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology (https://www.vogelwarte.ch/assets/files/publications/upload2019/Zustand%20der%20Vogelwelt%20in%20der%20Schweiz_Bericht%202019_E_low.pdf). These data provided species trends from 1990 to 2016. Polish data were obtained from https://monitoringptakow.gios.gov.pl/database.html, and provided trends for each species for the period 2000-2019. Portuguese data (based on the program organised by the Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, SPEA) were obtained from https://www.spea.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/relatorio_cac_2021_vf3.pdf, as long-term (2004-2020) trends for each species. Data from Spain were obtained from the monitoring programs conducted by SEO/Birdlife (https://seo.org/boletin/seguimiento/boletin/2018/html5forpc.html?page=0), consisting of long-term trends (1998-2018) for each species. Data from Sweden, showing 1998-2022 trends for each species, were obtained from http://www.fageltaxering.lu.se/resultat/trender. Swiss data were obtained from the monitoring programs carried out by Vogelwarte, the Swiss Ornithological Institute (https://www.vogelwarte.ch/assets/files/projekte/entwicklung/zustandsbericht%202019/Zustandsbericht%202019_e_low.pdf) and consisted of 1990-2018 trends for each species. The UK data were obtained through monitoring programs at the British Trust of Ornithology (https://www.bto.org/our-science/publications/birdtrends/2020/species), providing long-term (1994-2020) trends for each species. In all cases, trends for each species were categorised according to European Bird Census Council (EBCC) definitions (see https://pecbms.info/methods/pecbms-methods/1-national-species-indices-and-trends/1-2-production-of-national-indices-and-trends/trend-interpretation-and-classification) as ‘important decline’, ‘moderate decline’, ‘stable’, ‘moderate increase’, ‘marked increase’ or ‘uncertain. We regrouped the categories as ‘decline’ (either important or moderate) or ‘no decline’, (stability, moderate or important increase, or uncertain trends) to obtain a binomial variable describing the decline probability of a given species in each country.

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    The fertility rate (TFR) in selected EU countries in 2015

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    Piotr Kasprzak (2021). The fertility rate (TFR) in selected EU countries in 2015 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.34808/b3ne-bn88
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    Jun 29, 2021
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    Piotr Kasprzak
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    European Union
    Description

    The main reasons for the negative consequences of demographic changes are: natural increase in the life span of the population, decline in fertility and emigration of unusual dimensions.

  16. World population by age and region 2024

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    Statista (2025). World population by age and region 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265759/world-population-by-age-and-region/
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    Mar 11, 2025
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    World
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    Globally, about 25 percent of the population is under 15 years of age and 10 percent is over 65 years of age. Africa has the youngest population worldwide. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 40 percent of the population is below 15 years, and only three percent are above 65, indicating the low life expectancy in several of the countries. In Europe, on the other hand, a higher share of the population is above 65 years than the population under 15 years. Fertility rates The high share of children and youth in Africa is connected to the high fertility rates on the continent. For instance, South Sudan and Niger have the highest population growth rates globally. However, about 50 percent of the world’s population live in countries with low fertility, where women have less than 2.1 children. Some countries in Europe, like Latvia and Lithuania, have experienced a population decline of one percent, and in the Cook Islands, it is even above two percent. In Europe, the majority of the population was previously working-aged adults with few dependents, but this trend is expected to reverse soon, and it is predicted that by 2050, the older population will outnumber the young in many developed countries. Growing global population As of 2025, there are 8.1 billion people living on the planet, and this is expected to reach more than nine billion before 2040. Moreover, the global population is expected to reach 10 billions around 2060, before slowing and then even falling slightly by 2100. As the population growth rates indicate, a significant share of the population increase will happen in Africa.

  17. Data from: Coupling demographic and genetic variability from archived...

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    Paolo Ruggeri; Andrea Splendiani; Cristina Di Muri; Tatiana Fioravanti; Alberto Santojanni; Iole Leonori; Andrea De Felice; Ilaria Biagiotti; Piera Carpi; Enrico Arneri; Paola Nisi Cerioni; Massimo Giovannotti; Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi; Paolo Ruggeri; Andrea Splendiani; Cristina Di Muri; Tatiana Fioravanti; Alberto Santojanni; Iole Leonori; Andrea De Felice; Ilaria Biagiotti; Piera Carpi; Enrico Arneri; Paola Nisi Cerioni; Massimo Giovannotti; Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi (2022). Data from: Coupling demographic and genetic variability from archived collections of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus). [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.j8p21
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    Paolo Ruggeri; Andrea Splendiani; Cristina Di Muri; Tatiana Fioravanti; Alberto Santojanni; Iole Leonori; Andrea De Felice; Ilaria Biagiotti; Piera Carpi; Enrico Arneri; Paola Nisi Cerioni; Massimo Giovannotti; Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi; Paolo Ruggeri; Andrea Splendiani; Cristina Di Muri; Tatiana Fioravanti; Alberto Santojanni; Iole Leonori; Andrea De Felice; Ilaria Biagiotti; Piera Carpi; Enrico Arneri; Paola Nisi Cerioni; Massimo Giovannotti; Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi
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    It is well known that temporal fluctuations in small populations deeply influence evolutionary potential. Less well known is whether fluctuations can influence the evolutionary potentials of species with large census sizes. Here, we estimated genetic population parameters from as survey of polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci in archived otoliths from Adriatic European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), a fish with large census sizes that supports numerous local fisheries. Stocks have fluctuated greatly over the past few decades, and the Adriatic fishery collapsed in 1987. Our results show a significant reduction of mean genetic parameters as a consequence of the population collapse. In addition, estimates of effective population size (Ne) are much smaller than those expected in a fishes with large population census sizes (Nc). Estimates of Ne indicate low effective population sizes, even before the population collapse. The ratio Ne/Ne ranged between 10−6 and 10−8, indicating a large discrepancy between the anchovy gene pool and population census size. Therefore, anchovy populations may be more vulnerable to fishery effort and environmental change than previously thought.

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    Data from: Is population structure in the European white stork determined by...

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    Jill M. Shephard; Rob Ogden; Piotr Tryjanowski; Ola Olsson; Peter Galbusera (2023). Is population structure in the European white stork determined by flyway permeability rather than translocation history? [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jm361
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    Jill M. Shephard; Rob Ogden; Piotr Tryjanowski; Ola Olsson; Peter Galbusera
    Time period covered
    Oct 23, 2014
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    European white stork are long considered to diverge to eastern and western migration pools as a result of independent overwintering flyways. In relatively recent times, the western and northern distribution has been subject to dramatic population declines and country-specific extirpations. A number of independent reintroduction programs were started in the mid 1950s to bring storks back to historical ranges. Founder individuals were sourced opportunistically from the Eastern and Western European distributions and Algeria, leading to significant artificial mixing between eastern and western flyways. Here we use mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA to test the contention that prior to translocation, eastern and western flyways were genetically distinct. The data show a surprising lack of structure at any spatial or temporal scale suggesting that even though birds were moved between flyways, there is evidence of natural mixing prior to the onset of translocation activities. Overall a high ...

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    Supplementary material 1 from: Thomaes A, Verschelde P, Mader D,...

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    Updated Jan 21, 2020
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    Verschelde, Pieter (2020). Supplementary material 1 from: Thomaes A, Verschelde P, Mader D, Sprecher-Uebersax E, Fremlin M, Onkelinx T, Méndez M (2017) Can we successfully monitor a population density decline of elusive invertebrates? A statistical power analysis on Lucanus cervus. In: Campanaro A, Hardersen S, Sabbatini Peverieri G, Carpaneto GМ (Eds) Monitoring of saproxylic beetles and other insects protected in the European Union. Nature Conservation 19: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.19.11761 [Dataset]. https://data.niaid.nih.gov/resources?id=zenodo_904336
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    Mader, Detlef
    Méndez, Marcos
    Sprecher-Uebersax, Eva
    Verschelde, Pieter
    Fremlin, Maria
    Thomaes, Arno
    Onkelinx, Thierry
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    European Union
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    Figures of statistical support : Data type: statistical data

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    house sparrow london survey from Avian malaria-mediated population decline...

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    Daria Dadam; Robert A. Robinson; Anabel Clements; Will J. Peach; Malcolm Bennett; J. Marcus Rowcliffe; Andrew A. Cunningham (2023). house sparrow london survey from Avian malaria-mediated population decline of a widespread iconic bird species. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8791607.v2
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    Daria Dadam; Robert A. Robinson; Anabel Clements; Will J. Peach; Malcolm Bennett; J. Marcus Rowcliffe; Andrew A. Cunningham
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    Parasites have the capacity to affect animal populations by modifying host survival, and it is increasingly recognized that infectious disease can negatively impact biodiversity. Populations of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) have declined in many European towns and cities, but the causes of these declines remain unclear. We investigated associations between parasite infection and house sparrow demography across suburban London where sparrow abundance has declined by 71% since 1995. Plasmodium relictum infection was found at higher prevalences (averaging 74%) in suburban London house sparrows than previously recorded in any wild bird population in Northern Europe. Survival rates of juvenile and adult sparrows and population growth rate were negatively related to Plasmodium relictum infection intensity. Other parasites were much less prevalent and exhibited no relationship with sparrow survival and no negative relationship with population growth. Low rates of co-infection suggested sparrows were not immunocompromised. Our findings indicate that P. relictum infection may be influencing house sparrow population dynamics in suburban areas. The demographic sensitivity of the house sparrow to P. relictum infection in London might reflect a recent increase in exposure to this parasite.

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Annual population change of selected European countries 2023

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Time period covered
2023
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Europe
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In 2023, Ukraine had the fastest growing population in Europe. As a result of Ukrainian citizens who had fled Russia's invasion of the eastern European country in 2022 returning to the country in 2023, Ukraine's population grew by 3.68 percent compared to 2022. Excluding this special case, the European countries which saw the greatest population growth in 2023 were Luxembourg, Norway, and Ireland. Overall, Europe's population declined by 0.09 percent in 2022, with this varying by region from a 0.31 percent decline in eastern Europe to an increase of 0.33 percent in northern Europe. All of the countries which saw the largest declines in their population in 2023 were central and eastern European countries which had hosted large numbers of Ukrainian refugees in 2022. Moldova, one of Ukraine's closest neighbours, saw its population decline by 3.6 percent, while Poland's population declined by 2.2 percent, and Slovakia's by 1.8 percent.

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