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The population of the EU is reduced according to the latest Eurostat report

The median age has increased almost 6 years since 2022.

The population of the European Union has decreased by more than half a million people compared to 2020, according to the latest demographic statistics published by Eurostat.

The report has revealed the adverse effect of COVID-19 victims on the EU population, interrupting the annual growth observed until 2020. Despite the fact that 17 EU Member States showed an absolute increase in their population, seven countries continued to the opposite trend, including significant declines in Italy, Poland, Greece and Croatia.

The annual demographic statistics, produced by the EU Statistical Office, aim to analyze the evolution of the population in the region through a series of key parameters.

Here are some of the highlights from the latest report:

The population of the EU decreases

The population of the EU on January 1, 2022 was 446.7 million inhabitants, which represents a slight decrease compared to the same day in 2021. Although the global population has grown by 4% compared to 2001, the population decreased by second year in a row.

In January 2022 there were 585,000 fewer people in the European Union than on the first day of 2020.

The EU population continued to grow annually until January 2020, and then began to resume the negative trend, which is attributed to declines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EU is aging fast

The latest figures show that more than a fifth of the EU’s inhabitants are now aged 65 or over.

With access to better health services, the percentage of people aged 80 and over almost doubles in 2022 compared to 2002.

On the other hand, there is also a decrease in the population under 20 years of age, which contributes to the global aging figures. This means an increase in the average age of people residing in the EU.

The average age in the EU in 2022 was 44.4 years, which is an increase of almost six years compared to the figures of 20 years ago.

While Italy had the highest median age of the Member States, at 48 years, Cyprus was at the bottom, at 38.3 years.

Women live longer in the EU

Women in the EU live longer than men in the EU, according to the latest life expectancy figures.

Although overall life expectancy fell by 1.2 years between 2019 and 2021, figures show that women live 5.7 years longer than men.

Life expectancy at birth for women was 82.9 years for women in 2021, compared to 77.2 years for men. All EU Member States followed the same trend.

The global average life expectancy has gone from 77.6 years in 2002 to 80.1 in 2021, thanks to factors such as the reduction in infant mortality, the increase in the standard of living, the improvement of lifestyles, the improvement of education and advances in health and medicine, which have delayed premature deaths.

Source: Euronews Espanol

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