EU population up by 2.1 Mio. last year, now at 500 Mio.+

[Tender Branson]

The European Union's population is on course to break through the 500 million mark in 2009, new figures from the bloc's statistics agency indicated on Monday.

The total number of people living in the European Union's 27 states rose by 2.1 million, or 0.4 per cent, over 12 months to January and now stands at 499.8 million people, the latest figures from Eurostat showed.

It was the fourth year in a row that the population had risen and comes despite a drop in the birthrate in Germany, the EU's most populous country.

The increase was down to a moderate rise in the birth rate while the death rate had remained relatively constant, said Eurostat.

For while 5.4 million babies had been born across the EU 27 nations, up 0.3 per cent on the previous year, 4.8 million people died over the same period - the same rate as the previous year.

Germany bucked the trend, recording 675,000 births against 844,000 deaths, which meant Germany's total population dropped 168,000 in 2008 to 82.1 million people.

The highest increase in the birth rate was an 0.8 per cent jump recorded in Lithuania, which amounted to 35,000 births. But its population continued to fall because the country recorded 44,000 deaths.

In contrast, the population in France increased by 368,000 to 64.4 million people; in Spain by 545,000 to 45.8 million; and in Italy by 434,000 to 60.1 million.

Britain's population increased 441,000 to 61.6 million.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/eu-population-set-to-hit-500-million-20090803-e7cs.html

Official EUROSTAT statistics for each country:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-03082009-AP/EN/3-03082009-AP-EN.PDF

[Tender Branson]

A map showing which European countries gained and lost population during 2008:



The most important aspect over the past 9 years was that the population decline in Eastern Europe is slowing down at a really fast rate.

Some countries like the Czech Republic and Poland, who were steadily losing population until 2005 are now gaining and in the case of the CR, almost 100.000 people each year.

Next in line will be Estonia and Croatia, who could have positive growth in the next few years.

Also Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - who lost 1 Mio., 700.000 and 100.000 people each year - are now only declining by 100.000, 200.000 and 20.000 each year.

Russia could even see positive growth next year, due to a baby-boom and a high migration-saldo ...

[Nhoj]

i suppose you dont have the stats for the none eu countries in Europe :/

[Tender Branson]

In Russia for example, Births are up 3% this year and Deaths are down by 5% compared with last year.

The birth rate is up to 13 per 1.000, while the death rate is at 14/1000.

In 2000, these numbers were 9/1000 for Births and 15/1000 for Deaths.

In Ukraine, Births are up 6% this year and Deaths down by 7% compared with last year.

The birth rate is up to 12 per 1.000, while the death rate is holding steady at 16/1000.

In 2000, these numbers were 8/1000 for Births and 16/1000 for Deaths.

Eventually the death rate will go down as well and Russia & Ukraine will grow again, probably by 2020.

[Tender Branson]

i suppose you dont have the stats for the none eu countries in Europe :/

Some of them (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Turkey) are in the EUROSTAT release I posted above, because they are EU candidate countries.

For the others I went through the individual country websites of the Statistics Bureaus to check the numbers.

[Nhoj]

i suppose you dont have the stats for the none eu countries in Europe :/

Some of them (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Turkey) are in the EUROSTAT release I posted above, because they are EU candidate countries.

For the others I went through the individual country websites of the Statistics Bureaus to check the numbers.

Yeah i saw those ones in the stats.i rather meant the east and Balkans countries not in the eurostat thing. but the russia and ukraine stuff you provided is good enough for me for now.

[Tender Branson]

i suppose you dont have the stats for the none eu countries in Europe :/

Some of them (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Turkey) are in the EUROSTAT release I posted above, because they are EU candidate countries.

For the others I went through the individual country websites of the Statistics Bureaus to check the numbers.

Yeah i saw those ones in the stats.i rather meant the east and Balkans countries not in the eurostat thing. but the russia and ukraine stuff you provided is good enough for me for now.

The exact numbers for Russia are:

2009 (January through May)

699.900 Births (2008: 679.700)
859.900 Deaths (2008: 902.800)

Saldo: -160.000 (2008: -223.100)

Immigration: 739.400 (2008: 866.500)
Emigration: 636.700 (2008: 763.200)

Saldo: +102.700 (2008: +103.300)

Total Population Loss (Jan.-May): 57.300 (2008: 119.800)

Total Population on June 1, 2009: 141.847.000

http://www.gks.ru/bgd/free/b09_00/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d06/8-0.htm

[Tender Branson]

To find data on Ukraine isn't that complicated either:

2009 (January through May)

208.238 Births (2008: 196.324)
313.471 Deaths (2008: 335.932)

Saldo: -105.233 (2008: -139.608)

Immigration: 13.747 (2008: 14.818)
Emigration: 7.510 (2008: 8.213)

Saldo: +6.237 (2008: +6.605)

Total Population Loss (Jan.-May): 98.996 (2008: 133.003)

Total Population on June 1, 2009: 46.044.718

http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2009/ds/pp/pp_e/pp0509_e.html

[Tender Branson]

Belarus (January through June 2009):

Births: 53.579 (2008: 51.153)
Deaths: 69.233 (2008: 68.307)

Birth-Rate: 11.2/1000
Death-Rate: 14.4/1000

Saldo: -15.654 (2008: -17.154)

Immigrants: 9.748
Emigrants: 3.578

Saldo: +6.170

Total Population Loss (Jan.-June): 9.484

Total Population on July 1, 2009: 9.662.400

http://belstat.gov.by/homep/en/indicators/press/demogr.php

There's also a Population Census in Belarus between Oct. 14-24, but I don't know if you can trust the numbers coming out of it, because there's always the possibility of number fudging for the Führer Lukashenko ...

[Tender Branson]

Spain for example uses 2 methods of population estimates.

A) The Municipal Population Register: 46.662.000 inhabitants on Jan. 1, 2009

B) The Now-Cast Estimates: 45.828.000 inhabitants on Jan. 1, 2009

The municipal register is overreporting population numbers, because of the high movement within Spain and with countries abroad, especially of seasonal foreign workers. They register in 1 town, but if they move to another town or country, most of them are not de-registering.

The now-cast estimates on the other hand are directly based on numbers of the 2001 Census, which were also about 800.000 lower than the MPR numbers.

[Tender Branson]

i suppose you dont have the stats for the none eu countries in Europe :/

I just found a more detailed publication of the new numbers, even including countries like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, etc.

Check it out:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-QA-09-031/EN/KS-QA-09-031-EN.PDF

[King]

Back in Soviet Russia, this would by solved simply by a call for increased intercourse.  Tisk, tisk these times!

(And in Nazi Germany, too, though, it would require months of extensive proper DNA match making.)

[Tender Branson]

Back in Soviet Russia, this would by solved simply by a call for increased intercourse.  Tisk, tisk these times!

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=60818.0

[dead0man]

teehee

I don't even have to click the link to know what it is.  The more things change....

[Tender Branson]

Germany and Austria will be hard-hit demographically this year, though Austria not so much.

Births are already down in Germany by 6% from Jan.-April this year, while deaths are up by half a percent compared with 2008.

Germany is heading for 650.000 births (8/1000) and 850.000 deaths (10.4/1000) this year, while about 100.000 more people will emigrate than immigrate.

This will lead to a population loss of about 200K-300K if these trends hold.

In Austria, births are down by 3% in the first half of 2009 compared with 2008.

We can expect roughly 75.500 births this year (9/1000) and about 76.000 deaths.

But contrary to Germany, Austria will add about 35.000 people this year due to migration.

Switzerland on the other hand is completely different: They can expect about 78.000 births this year (10.1/1000) and 62.000 deaths (8/1000). Also, there will be a 70.000 immigration gain, so that Switzerland will grow by 100.000 people this year.

[GMantis]

teehee

I don't even have to click the link to know what it is.  The more things change....

The fact is that such policies usually work. Well, not the silly encouragment to have more sex - it's not the lack of sex that is the problem.