Total population

At 1 January

The inhabitants of a given area on 1 January of the year in question (or, in some cases, on 31 December of the previous year). The population is based on data from the most recent census adjusted by the components of population change produced since the last census, or based on population registers.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
EU (27 countries)	483797028	484635119	486646114	488797929	491134938	493210397	495291925	497686132	499686575 ^(p)	501084516 ^(bp)	502369211 ^(bp)	503663601 ^(bp)
Euro area (17 countries)	315413267	316972081	318909529	320931192	323030150	324813716	326560819	328487175	329972960 ^(p)	330890359 ^(bp)	331964863 ^(bp)	332876462 ^(bp)
Euro area (16 countries)	314046308	315610839	317553484	319580123	321682640	323469032	325218410	327146240	328632545 ^(p)	329550232 ^(bp)	330624669 ^(bp)	331536800 ^(bp)
Belgium	10263414	10309725	10355844	10396421	10445852	10511382	10584534	10666866	10753080	10839905	11000638 ^(b)	11094850 ^(p)
Bulgaria	8149468	7891095	7845841	7801273	7761049	7718750	7679290	7640238	7606551	7563710	7369431 ^(b)	7327224
Czech Republic	10266546	10206436	10203269	10211455	10220577	10251079	10287189	10381130	10467542	10506813	10486731 ^(bp)	10505445 ^(p)
Denmark	5349212	5368354	5383507	5397640	5411405	5427459	5447084	5475791	5511451	5534738	5560628	5580516
Germany	82259540	82440309	82536680	82531671	82500849	82437995	82314906	82217837	82002356	81802257	81751602	81843743 ^(p)
Estonia	1366959	1361242	1356045	1351069	1347510	1344684	1342409	1340935	1340415	1340127	1340194	1339662 ^(p)
Ireland	3832783	3899702	3964191	4028851	4111672	4208156	4312526	4401335	4450030	4467854	4570727 ^(bp)	4582769 ^(p)
Greece	10931206	10968708	11006377	11040650	11082751	11125179	11171740	11213785	11260402	11305118	11309885	11290067 ^(p)
Spain	40476723	40964244	41663702	42345342	43038035	43758250	44474631	45283259	45828172	45989016	46152926	46196276 ^(p)
France	60979315	61424036	61864088	62292241	62772870	63229635	63645065	64007193	64350226 ^(p)	64658856 ^(p)	64994907 ^(p)	65327724 ^(p)
Italy	56960692	56993742	57321070	57888245	58462375	58751711	59131287	59619290	60045068	60340328	60626442	60820696 ^(p)
Cyprus	697549	705539	715137	730367	749175	766414	778684	789269	796875	819140 ^(b)	839751	862011
Latvia	2364254	2345768	2331480	2319203	2306434	2294590	2281305	2270894	2261294	2248374	2074605 ^(b)	2041763 ^(p)
Lithuania	3486998	3475586	3462553	3445857	3425324	3403284	3384879	3366357	3349872	3329039	3052588 ^(b)	3007758
Luxembourg	439000	444050	448300	454960	461230	469086	476187	483799	493500	502066	511840	524853 ^(bp)
Hungary	10200298	10174853	10142362	10116742	10097549	10076581	10066158	10045401	10030975	10014324	9985722	9957731 ^(p)
Malta	391415 ^(bi)	394641	397296	399867	402668	405006	407810	410290	413609	414372	415832 ^(b)	417520 ^(p)
Netherlands	15987075	16105285	16192572	16258032	16305526	16334210	16357992	16405399	16485787	16574989	16655799	16730348
Austria	8020946	8063640	8100273	8142573	8201359	8254298	8282984	8318592	8355260	8375290	8404252	8443018 ^(p)
Poland	38253955	38242197	38218531	38190608	38173835	38157055	38125479	38115641	38135876	38167329	38529866 ^(b)	38538447 ^(p)
Portugal	10256658	10329340	10407465	10474685	10529255	10569592	10599095	10617575	10627250	10637713	10572157 ^(bp)	10541840 ^(p)
Romania	22430457	21833483	21772774	21711252	21658528	21610213	21565119	21528627	21498616	21462186	21413815 ^(p)	21355849 ^(p)
Slovenia	1990094	1994026	1995033	1996433	1997590	2003358	2010377	2010269 ^(b)	2032362	2046976	2050189	2055496
Slovakia	5378783	5378951	5379161	5380053	5384822	5389180	5393637	5400998	5412254	5424925	5392446 ^(b)	5404322
Finland	5181115	5194901	5206295	5219732	5236611	5255580	5276955	5300484	5326314	5351427	5375276	5401267
Sweden	8882792	8909128	8940788	8975670	9011392	9047752	9113257	9182927	9256347	9340682	9415570	9482855
United Kingdom	58999781	59216138	59435480	59697037	60038695	60409918	60781346	61191951	61595091	62026962	62515392 ^(p)	62989551 ^(p)
Iceland	283361	286575	288471	290570	293577	299891	307672	315459	319368	317630	318452	319575
Liechtenstein	32863	33525	33863	34294	34600	34905	35168	35356	35589	35894	36149	36475 ^(p)
Norway	4503436	4524066	4552252	4577457	4606363	4640219	4681134	4737171	4799252	4858199	4920305	4985870
Switzerland	7204055	7255653	7313853	7364148	7415102	7459128	7508739	7593494	7701856	7785806	7870134 ^(b)	7954662 ^(p)
Montenegro	614791	617085	619300	621258	622978	623576	624896	627508	630142	616411 ^(b)	619872	621240
Croatia	4438868 ^(s)	4444608	4442744	4441733	4443901	4442884	4441238	4436401	4435056	4425747	4412137	4398150 ^(p)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	2031112	2038651	2023654	2029892	2035196	2038514	2041941	2045177	2048619	2052722	2057284	2059794 ^(p)
Turkey	67895581	68838069	69770026	70692009	71610009	72519974	69689256 ^(b)	70586256	71517100	72561312	73722988	74724269

(..) - not available
(p) - provisional
(b) - break in time series
(s) - Eurostat estimate

Source: Eurostat