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The European Union’s population grew in 2022 for the first time in three years, according to new data published on Tuesday by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat.

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Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in the EU and the country is ageing at a much faster rate than other European countries.

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Eurostat's Demography of Europe report documents various factors affecting the lives of tens of millions of people.

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India is overtaking China to become the world's biggest country by population. Both China and India have more than 1.4 billion people, and combined they make up more than a third of the world's 8 billion people.

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The countries where population is declining

China recorded its first population decline in 60 years on Tuesday. But it is not the only country where the number of people is falling.

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How Spain's older generation are becoming the new high achievers

Spain has the sixth highest life expectancy in the world, after Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Switzerland and Singapore, according to figures from the World Population Review published this year.

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EU's population decreases partly due to COVID-19, latest figures show

The natural population change — the difference between live births and deaths — tanked in 2020 to -2.5, likely due in part to the pandemic which has claimed the lives of over a million people across the EU.

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Croatia's population has dropped 10% in a decade, reveals census

Croatia's government has singled out the problem as a major challenge.

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China's population growth reaches lowest rate in decades

China's population is growing at such a slow rate that it is prompting fears of an increasingly dependent population with fewer people available to work.

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For NGOs, ageing has been the elephant in the room for years among policymakers and has only come to the forefront since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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EU's population will plummet by millions more than expected: study

The population of the EU could drop to 308 million by the end of the century, a new study has predicted.

31/07/2020

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Serbia is losing one town every year through population decline

Serbia's rapidly-declining population is causing international concern — and now the United Nations has stepped in to help with a special mission.

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A diplomatic row over comparing Hungary’s bid to boost its birth rate with Nazi Germany has intensified.

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Italy looks at offering land for children to halt declining birth rate

Have a kid, win a fridge! Euronews looks at solutions to the 'issue' of low birth rates.

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The long goodbye: how southern Europeans are leaving home even later than before

Italian, Greek and Spanish millennials already have a reputation for staying at home longer than northern Europeans. But latest figures suggest they are putting off quitting the family nest for even longer than before.

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Japan has proved that population aging doesn’t need to rule out economic growth for countries that resist immigration, argues Daniel Gros

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Britain is poised to outpace Germany and have the largest population in Western Europe by the year 2100.

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