The average for 2021 based on 27 countries was 187 people per square km. The highest value was in Malta: 1620 people per square km and the lowest value was in Finland: 18 people per square km. The indicator is available from 1961 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Monaco led the ranking for countries with the highest population density in 2024, with nearly 26,000 residents per square kilometer. The Special Administrative Region Macao came in second, followed by Singapore. The world’s second smallest country Monaco is the world’s second smallest country, with an area of about two square kilometers, and its population only numbers around 40,000. It is a constitutional monarchy located by the Mediterranean Sea, and while Monaco is not part of the European Union, it does participate in some EU policies. The country is perhaps most famous for the Monte Carlo casino and for hosting the Monaco Grand Prix, the world's most prestigious Formula One race. The global population Globally, the population density per square kilometer stands at about 60 inhabitants, and Asia is the most densely populated region in the world. The global population is increasing rapidly, so population density is only expected to increase as well. In 1950, for example, the global population stood at about 2.54 billion people, and it reached over eight billion during 2023.

In 2022, the population density in the European Union remained nearly unchanged at around 112.05 inhabitants per square kilometer. Nevertheless, 2022 still represents a peak in the population density in the European Union. Population density is calculated by dividing the total population by the total land area, to show the average number of people living there per square kilometer of land.

Denmark has, by far, the highest population density of the Nordic countries. This is related to the fact that it is the smallest Nordic country in terms of land area. Meanwhile, Iceland, which has the smallest population of the five countries, also has the lowest population density. As the total population increased in all five countries over the past decade, the population density also increased.

Chart and table of Europe Central Asia Ibrd Only Countries population density from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

Key figures on the population of the Netherlands.

The following information is available: - Population by sex; - Population by marital status; - Population by age (groups); - Population by origin; - Private households; - Persons in institutional households; - Population growth; - Population density.

CBS is in transition towards a new classification of the population by origin. Greater emphasis is now placed on where a person was born, aside from where that person’s parents were born. The term ‘migration background’ is no longer used in this regard. The main categories western/non-western are being replaced by categories based on continents and a few countries that share a specific migration history with the Netherlands. The new classification is being implemented gradually in tables and publications on population by origin.

Data available from: 1950 Figures on population by origin are only available from 2022 at this moment. The periods 1996 through 2021 will be added to the table at a later time.

Status of the figures: All the figures are final.

Changes as of 17 July 2024: Final figures with regard to population growth for 2023 and final figures of the population on 1 January 2024 have been added.

Changes as of 26 April 2023: None, this is a new table. This table succeeds the table Population; key figures; 1950-2022. See section 3. The following changes have been implemented compared to the discontinued table: - The topic folder 'Population by migration background' has been replaced by 'Population by origin'; - The underlying topic folders regarding 'first and second generation migration background' have been replaced by 'Born in the Netherlands' and 'Born abroad'; - The origin countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Turkey have been assigned to the continent of Asia (previously Europe).

When will new figures be published? In the last quarter of 2025 final figures with regard to population growth for 2024 and final figures of the population on 1 January 2025 will be added.

This dataset contains SDMX files with total population of the Netherlands according to the INSPIRE datamodel for Population Distribution version 3.0.

Wealth and Renewable Energy - A Statistical Analysis across European Countries

Between 2015 and 2022, Estonia had the highest density of “right to be forgotten” or “right to erasure” requests issued to Google and Microsoft Bing, among other European countries, with almost 59 appeals per 10 thousand inhabitants. Registering the highest number of requests during the analyzed period, France ranked second regarding request density, with 46.2 requests per 10 thousand inhabitants.

Data adjusted from the dataset of GEOSTAT, Eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/population-distribution-demography/geostatGEOSTAT was launched at the beginning of 2010 by Eurostat in cooperation with the European Forum for GeoStatistics (EFGS) , to promote grid-based statistics and more generally to work towards the integration of statistical and geospatial information in a common information infrastructure for the EU. Its aim is to develop common guidelines for the collection and production of spatial- and grid-statistics within the European Statistical System

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 bar chart displays population (people) by ISO 3 country code and is filtered where the continent is Europe. The data is about countries per year.

This bar chart displays population (people) by region and is filtered where the continent is Europe. The data is about countries.

Luxembourg had a working population that was approximately 70 percent of it's overall population, the most of any European Union state in 2020. Cyprus had the second-highest proportion of working age people, at just over 69 percent, while Finland had a working age population of 61.6 percent, and was the lowest in the EU in this year.

Population statistics are reported for Routes (1x1 km). The statistics refer to 2019-12-31.

In 2023, the population of the United Kingdom was around 68.3 million, with approximately 34.5 million women and 33.1 million men. Since 1953, the male population of the UK has grown by around 9.1 million, while the female population has increased by approximately 8.5 million. Throughout this provided time period, the female population of the UK has consistently outnumbered the male population. UK population one of the largest in Europe As of 2022, the population of the United Kingdom was the largest it has ever been, and with growth expected to continue, the forecasted population of the United Kingdom is expected to reach over 70 million by the 2030s. Despite the relatively small size of its territory, the UK has one of the largest populations among European countries, slightly larger than France but smaller than Russia and Germany. As of 2022, the population density of the UK was approximately 279 people per square kilometer, with London by far the most densely populated area, and Scotland the most sparsely populated. Dominance of London As seen in the data regarding population density, the population of the United Kingdom is not evenly distributed across the country. Within England, London has a population of almost nine million, making it significantly bigger than the next largest cities of Birmingham and Manchester. As of 2022, Scotland's largest city, Glasgow had a population of around 1.7 million, with the largest cities in Northern Ireland, and Wales being Belfast and Cardiff, which had populations of 643,000 and 488,000 respectively.

This section presents statistical information on the educational variables that are collected in the Labour Force Survey of the National Institute of Statistics, as well as in the Community Labour Force Survey (Eurostat). The indicators of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (2021-2030) that derive from these sources are highlighted. The information is presented disaggregated by autonomous community and by country of the European Union, according to the source used, and with temporary developments since 2002.Line break The results are obtained as annual averages of quarterly data, so the information is updated annually, as the four quarters of the EPA are available, as well as the results derived from the Community survey of Eurostat. From the 2014 results of the EPA, the new National Classification of Education, CNED-2014, based on the International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED-2011, applied in the LFS, is applied; and from 2016, the update of the sectors/fields of study of both classifications (CNED-F and ISCED-F) is applied. These changes in the rankings represent a series break for some of the tables, as indicated in the accompanying notes.

Population Density and Area Size

As of 2023, Germany was the largest country in the European Union in terms of population. The central European country comprised almost one-fifth of the total population of the EU in that year, with France in second place with 15.19 percent, and Italy in third at 13.15 percent. While there are 27 member states of the European Union in total, approximately two-thirds of the population of the bloc is made up by the seven largest countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, and the Netherlands. Of the remaining 20 member states, no country makes up more than 3 percent of the EU's total population, with the smallest country, Malta, comprising just 0.12 percent of the total.

This bar chart displays population (people) by ISO 3 country code using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the region is Western Europe. The data is about countries per year.