European Union statistics

Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat (European statistics body).

Area and population

EU and UK population cartogram

As of 1 January 2006, the population of the EU was about 493 million people, although in 2020 the EU lost over 10% of its population as a result of the UK leaving the bloc. ^[1] Many countries are expected to experience a decline in population over the coming decades, ^[2] though this could be offset with new countries planning to join the EU within the next 20 years. The most populous member state is Germany, with an estimated 80.4 million people. France and Ireland have the highest birth-rates. ^[3] The most densely populated country is the island of Malta, which is also the smallest, while the largest in area is France. The least densely populated country is Finland.

The table below uses data from Eurostat. ^{[4] [5]}

Member State	Population	% pop.	Area km2	% area	Density /km2
European Union	448,387,872	100%	4,225,134	100%	106
Austria	9,104,772	2.0%	83,878	2.0%	109
Belgium	11,754,004	2.6%	30,667	0.7%	383
Bulgaria	6,447,710	1.4%	110,996	2.6%	58
Croatia	3,850,894	0.9%	56,594	1.3%	68
Cyprus	920,701	0.2%	9,253	0.2%	100
Czech Republic	10,827,529	2.4%	78,871	1.9%	137
Denmark	5,932,654	1.3%	42,925	1.0%	138
Estonia	1,365,884	0.3%	45,336	1.1%	30
Finland	5,563,970	1.2%	338,411	8.0%	16
France	68,070,697	15.2%	638,475	15.1%	107
Germany	84,358,845	18.8%	357,569	8.5%	236
Greece	10,394,055	2.3%	131,694	3.1%	79
Hungary	9,597,085	2.1%	93,012	2.2%	103
Ireland	5,194,336	1.2%	69,947	1.7%	74
Italy	58,850,717	13.1%	302,079	7.1%	195
Latvia	1,883,008	0.4%	64,586	1.5%	29
Lithuania	2,857,279	0.6%	65,284	1.5%	44
Luxembourg	672,050	0.1%	2,586	0.1%	260
Malta	542,051	0.1%	316	0.01%	1715
Netherlands	17,811,291	4.0%	37,378	0.9%	477
Poland	36,753,736	8.2%	311,928	7.4%	118
Portugal	10,467,366	2.3%	92,227	2.2%	113
Romania	19,051,562	4.2%	238,398	5.6%	80
Slovakia	5,428,792	1.2%	49,035	1.2%	111
Slovenia	2,116,792	0.5%	20,273	0.5%	104
Spain	48,059,777	10.7%	505,983	12.0%	95
Sweden	10,521,556	2.3%	447,424	10.6%	24

Economy

For statistics relating to economy, please see Economy of the European Union .

EU budget

The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to the EU budget, and receives funding back from the EU, depending on the relative wealth of the states, i.e. their ability to pay.

The table below shows the contributions as a percentage of the total budget. This takes into account the special considerations given to the United Kingdom to reduce its contribution through a rebate. Expenditure in Luxembourg, Belgium and France include items for the EU administrative centres in each of those countries.

Figures below are in Euros, where applicable. Data are for the year 2006.^{[ citation needed ]}

Member State	Total contribution	% total	Total expenditure	% total	Net contrib.	Net contrib. per capita	Total contrib. per capita
European Union	105,259,468,772	100.00%	106,575,500,000	100.00%	-1,316,031,228	-3	213
Germany	22,218,438,941	21.11%	12,242,400,000	11.49%	9,976,038,941	124	276
France	17,303,107,859	16.44%	13,496,200,000	12.66%	3,806,907,859	59	266
Italy	14,359,479,157	13.64%	10,922,300,000	10.25%	3,437,179,157	58	244
United Kingdom	13,739,900,046	13.05%	8,294,200,000	7.78%	5,445,700,046	90	226
Spain	8,957,286,488	8.51%	12,883,000,000	12.09%	-3,925,713,512	-88	200
Netherlands	5,552,933,781	5.28%	2,190,400,000	2.06%	3,362,533,781	198	327
Belgium	4,035,286,807	3.83%	5,625,100,000	5.28%	-1,589,813,193	-151	384
Sweden	2,832,862,800	2.69%	1,573,400,000	1.48%	1,259,462,800	126	283
Austria	2,308,432,030	2.19%	1,830,100,000	1.72%	478,332,030	58	278
Denmark	2,130,860,212	2.02%	1,501,900,000	1.41%	628,960,212	116	395
Poland	2,099,087,114	1.99%	5,305,600,000	4.98%	-3,206,512,886	-84	55
Greece	1,882,611,879	1.79%	6,833,700,000	6.41%	-4,951,088,121	-446	170
Finland	1,544,832,284	1.47%	1,280,400,000	1.20%	264,432,284	50	291
Portugal	1,443,049,602	1.37%	3,634,800,000	3.41%	-2,191,750,398	-207	136
Ireland	1,341,281,313	1.27%	2,461,800,000	2.31%	-1,120,518,687	-244	292
Hungary	1,003,119,411	0.95%	1,842,200,000	1.73%	-839,080,589	-83	99
Czech Republic	932,392,859	0.89%	1,330,000,000	1.25%	-397,607,141	-39	91
Slovakia	393,148,777	0.37%	696,200,000	0.65%	-303,051,223	-56	73
Slovenia	299,993,572	0.29%	406,000,000	0.38%	-106,006,428	-53	150
Luxembourg	241,439,011	0.23%	1,194,800,000	1.12%	-953,360,989	-1,907	483
Lithuania	221,997,405	0.21%	799,800,000	0.75%	-577,802,595	-170	65
Cyprus	144,556,416	0.14%	239,600,000	0.22%	-95,043,584	-119	181
Latvia	115,205,431	0.11%	402,600,000	0.24%	-287,394,569	-125	50
Estonia	100,756,308	0.10%	300,000,000	0.28%	-199,243,692	-142	72
Malta	57,409,269	0.05%	157,000,000	0.14%	-99,590,731	-249	144
Bulgaria			360,600,000	0.34%	-360,600,000	-47
Romania			693,100,000	0.65%	-693,100,000	-32

Economic and governance-related rankings

There are many indices available on issues such as corruption, development, and freedom. The rankings below include all EU member states, EU candidates (with the exception of Turkey, cause their accession negotiations have stalled since 2016) and EFTA countries.

Freedom of the press

EU Rank Member State Global Rank 1   Norway 1 2   Finland 2 3   Denmark 3 4   Sweden 5 5   Netherlands 6 6   Switzerland 8 7   Portugal 10 8   Germany 11 9   Belgium 12 10   Ireland 13 11   Estonia 14 12   Iceland 15 13   Luxembourg 17 14   Austria 18 15   Latvia 22 16   Cyprus 27 17   Lithuania 28

EU Rank Member State Global Rank 18   Spain 29 19   Slovenia 32 20   Slovakia 33 21   France 34 22   Czech Republic 40 23   Italy 41 24   Romania 48 25   Croatia 59 26   Poland 62 27   Greece 65 28   Malta 81 29   Albania 85 30   Hungary 89 31   North Macedonia 92 32   Serbia 93 33   Montenegro 105 34   Bulgaria 111

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) conducts an annual survey on the freedom of the press and produces scores (not shown here) for each country, resulting in the Press Freedom Index. In 2019 and 2020, Finland was proclaimed as having the freest press in the European Union, and the second in the world behind Norway. Bulgaria was ranked as having the least free press in the European Union in 2019 and 2020. ^[6]

Colour Codes
Good Situation
Satisfactory Situation
Noticeable problems
Difficult situation

Economic freedom

EU Rank Member State Global Rank 1   Switzerland 5 2   Ireland 6 3   Denmark 8 4   Estonia 10 5   Iceland 13 6   Netherlands 14 7   Lithuania 16 8   Luxembourg 19 9   Finland 20 10   Sweden 22 11   Czech Republic 23 12   Germany 27 13   Norway 28 14   Austria 29 15   Latvia 32 16   Bulgaria 36 17   Cyprus 37

EU Rank Member State Global Rank 18   Romania 38 19   North Macedonia 41 20   Malta 42 21   Poland 46 22   Belgium 48 23   Slovenia 52 24   Portugal 56 25   Albania 57 26   Spain 58 27   Slovakia 60 28   Hungary 62 29   France 64 30   Serbia 65 31   Italy 74 32   Croatia 84 33   Montenegro 91 34   Greece 100

The Index of Economic Freedom , published by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, uses 50 different variables to compile the survey, in areas such as trade policy and government intervention. ^[7]

A similar index produced by the World Economic Forum is its Global Competitiveness Index.

Colour Codes
Free
Mostly Free
Moderately Free
Moderately Unfree

Perception of corruption

Global Rank Country Score 1   Denmark 90 2   Finland 87 4   Norway 84 5   Sweden 83 7   Switzerland 82 8   Netherlands 80 9   Germany 79 10   Luxembourg 77 10   Ireland 77 14   Estonia 74 14   Iceland 74 18   Belgium 73 18   United Kingdom 73 21   France 72 22   Austria 71 33   Lithuania 62 33   Portugal 62 35   Spain 60 39   Latvia 59 41   Italy 56 41   Slovenia 56 41   Czech Republic 56

Global Rank Country Score 41   Georgia 56 45   Poland 55 49   Slovakia 53 51   Greece 52 51   Cyprus 52 54   Malta 51 57   Croatia 50 63   Romania 46 63   Armenia 46 65   Montenegro 45 72   Bulgaria 43 77   Hungary 42 84   Kosovo 41 85   North Macedonia 40 91   Moldova 39 91   Belarus 39 101   Serbia 36 101   Albania 36 101   Turkey 36 110   Bosnia and Herzegovina 34 116   Ukraine 33 137   Russia 28

Transparency International is an international NGO publishing an annual Global Corruption Report indicating the perception of corruption around the world. The rankings of the table refer to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 . A high ranking means low corruption.

Human development

Rank Country Global Rank 1   Norway 1 2   Ireland 2 3   Switzerland 2 4   Iceland 4 5   Germany 6 6   Sweden 7 7   Netherlands 8 8   Denmark 10 9   Finland 11 10   United Kingdom 13 11   Belgium 14 12   Austria 18 13   Slovenia 22 14   Luxembourg 23 15   Spain 25 16   France 26 17   Czech Republic 27 18   Malta 28 19   Estonia 29 20   Italy 29 21   Greece 32 22   Cyprus 33

Rank Country Global Rank 23   Lithuania 34 24   Poland 35 25   Latvia 37 26   Portugal 38 27   Slovakia 39 28   Hungary 40 29   Croatia 43 30   Montenegro 48 31   Romania 49 32   Russia 52 33   Belarus 53 34   Turkey 54 35   Bulgaria 56 36   Georgia 61 37   Serbia 64 38   Albania 69 39   Bosnia and Herzegovina 73 40   Ukraine 74 41   Armenia 81 42   North Macedonia 82 43   Azerbaijan 88 44   Moldova 90

Colour Codes
Very High Human Development
High Human Development

The Human Development Index is a measure produced by the United Nations which covers three aspects of human development:

• poverty (GDP per capita)
• education (mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling)
• health (life expectancy)

The rankings of the table refer to the UNDP Human Development Report 2019 (2018 data). The UN lists all EU member states as countries with very high human development.

Democracy Index

Global Rank Country Score 1   Norway 9.81 3   Iceland 9.45 4   Sweden 9.39 5   Finland 9.30 6   Denmark 9.28 7   Ireland 9.19 8   Switzerland 9.14 9   Netherlands 9.00 11   Luxembourg 8.81 12   Germany 8.80 18   Austria 8.28 19   United Kingdom 8.28 20   Greece 8.14 23   France 8.07 23   Spain 8.07 26   Czech Republic 7.97 27   Estonia 7.96 28   Malta 7.93 31   Slovenia 7.75 31   Portugal 7.75 34   Italy 7.69 36   Belgium 7.64

Global Rank Country Score 37   Cyprus 7.38 38   Latvia 7.38 39   Lithuania 7.31 41   Poland 7.18 44   Slovakia 7.07 50   Hungary 6.72 52   Montenegro 6.67 58   Croatia 6.50 60   Romania 6.45 62   Bulgaria 6.41 64   Serbia 6.33 66   Albania 6.28 68   Moldova 6.23 73   North Macedonia 6.03 84   Armenia 5.42 89   Georgia 5.20 91   Ukraine 5.06 94   Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.00 102   Turkey 4.33 130   Azerbaijan 2.80 144   Russia 2.22 151   Belarus 1.99

The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist.

See also

• European Union portal

• Enlargement of the European Union
• Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits
• Hispanics and Latins in Europe
• List of European Union member states by population
• Largest urban areas of the European Union and Larger Urban Zones
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics

References

1. "Total Population as of 01.01.06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine ", EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
2. "The EU's baby blues", BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
3. "France claims EU fertility crown ", BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
4. "EUROSTAT Population on 1 January". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
5. "Area by NUTS 3 region". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
6. World Press Freedom Index 2019 and World Press Freedom Index 2020, Reporters Without Borders
7. 2020 Index of Economic Freedom 2020 Index of Economic Freedom ^[unfit] , The Heritage Foundation

External links

• Eurostat – Statistics Explained
• Health-EU Portal Health Statistics
• EU Budget Data ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}