Romania, whose population has declined by more than 2.5 million people, has become the leader among the countries of the united Europe in terms of population loss. It is followed by Poland (-1.6 million) and Bulgaria (-1.3 million) by a wide margin. The data was provided by Eurostat in the publication "Demography of Europe — the 2025 edition".
There are currently 449 million people living in the European Union, which represents an annual increase of 0.4%.
The most densely populated countries The EU members are Germany (83.4 million, 19% of the total population of the Union), France (68.4 million, 15%) and Italy (58.9 million, 13%). On the contrary, the least populated countries The EU turned out to be Malta (563,000 people), Luxembourg (672,000 people) and Cyprus (934,000 inhabitants).