Demographics of the European Union

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The European Union has over 456 million inhabitants and currently has 25 member states.

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Population

According to the CIA Factbook, the European Union has 456 285 839 (July 2004 estimate) inhabitants. The annual growth rate for the EU is 0.17%.

Age Structure

  • 0-14 years: 16.3% (74 374 592 people)
  • 15-64 years: 67.2% (306 624 084 people)
  • 65 years and over: 16.6% (75 743 449 people)

(July 2004 estimate)

Births & Deaths

(July 2004 estimate)

Immigration & Emigration

There are currently more people immigrating into the European Union than there are emigrating. Immigration is a controversial issue in some member states such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

In Portugal, the issue is more peaceful, but also with some problems. Portugal started receiving massive amounts of immigrants towards the end of the 20th century, due to Germany opening Europe's borders to Eastern Europeans, mainly Ukrainians. Nevertheless, the population still remembers that many Portuguese also emigrated to other countries until very recently, and some still do today (often within the EU). It is much more common for the Portuguese population to informally gather to help an immigrant than to discriminate against them. One in ten people in Portugal is an immigrant, most of them Angolans, Brazilians, Cape Verdeans, Moldavans, Romanians, Russians and Ukrainians.

This figure is for immigration and emigration into the European Union, and therefore excludes any internal movements between member states.

  • 1.5 migrants/1 000 population (July 2004 estimate)

Life expectancy

The European Union as a whole has a high life expectancy.

  • Total population: 78.1 years
  • Male: 74.9 years
  • Female: 81.4 years

(July 2004 estimate)

Language

The first official languages of each of the 25 member countries has the status of an official language of the European Union. In total there are 21, see list below.

For more information regarding languages, please see Languages of the European Union.

See also

The demographics of the member states of the European Union:

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