Population change

The difference between the size of the population at the end and the beginning of a period. It is equal to the algebraic sum of natural increase and net migration (including corrections). There is negative change when both of these components are negative or when one is negative and has a higher absolute value than the other.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	2.9	1.7	4.1	4.4	4.8	4.2	4.2	4.9	4.0	2.8 ^(p)	2.9 ^(bp)	2.5 ^(bp)
Euro area (17 countries)	4.2	4.9	6.1	6.3	6.5	5.5	5.4	5.9	4.5	2.8 ^(p)	3.2 ^(bp)	2.6 ^(bp)
Euro area (16 countries)	4.2	5.0	6.1	6.4	6.6	5.5	5.4	6.0	4.5	2.8 ^(p)	3.2 ^(bp)	2.6 ^(bp)
Belgium	2.4	4.5	4.5	3.9	4.7	6.3	6.9	7.7	8.0	8.0	10.2	3.7 ^(bp)
Bulgaria	-5.1	-32.2	-5.8	-5.7	-5.2	-5.5	-5.1	-5.1	-4.4	-5.6	-7.8	-5.7 ^(b)
Czech Republic	-1.1	-5.9	-0.3	0.8	0.9	3.0	3.5	9.1	8.3	3.7	2.5	1.8 ^(bp)
Denmark	3.6	3.6	2.8	2.6	2.5	3.0	3.6	5.3	6.5	4.2	4.7	3.6
Germany	1.2	2.2	1.2	-0.1	-0.4	-0.8	-1.5	-1.2	-2.6	-2.4	-0.6	1.1 ^(p)
Estonia	-3.7	-4.2	-3.8	-3.7	-2.6	-2.1	-1.7	-1.1	-0.4	-0.2	0.0	-0.4
Ireland	14.5	17.3	16.4	16.2	20.3	23.2	24.5	20.4	11.0	4.0	2.9 ^(p)	2.8 ^(bp)
Greece	2.5	3.4	3.4	3.1	3.8	3.8	4.2	3.8	4.1	4.0	1.8	-1.8 ^(p)
Spain	10.6	12.0	16.9	16.2	16.2	16.6	16.2	18.0	12.0	3.5	3.6	0.9 ^(p)
France	7.1	7.3	7.1	6.9	7.7	7.3	6.5	5.7	5.3 ^(p)	5.3 ^(p)	5.5 ^(p)	5.4 ^(p)
Italy	0.7	0.6	5.7	9.8	9.9	4.9	6.4	8.2	7.1	4.9	4.7	3.2
Cyprus	10.2	11.4	13.5	21.1	25.4	22.7	15.9	13.5	9.6	7.8	24.8 ^(b)	26.2
Latvia	-7.4	-7.8	-6.1	-5.3	-5.5	-5.1	-5.8	-4.6	-4.2	-5.7	-8.4	-16.0 ^(bp)
Lithuania	-7.2	-3.3	-3.8	-4.8	-6.0	-6.5	-5.4	-5.5	-4.9	-6.2	-25.7	-14.8 ^(b)
Luxembourg	12.4	11.4	9.5	14.7	13.7	16.9	15.0	15.9	19.9	17.2	19.3	24.7 ^(p)
Hungary	-2.1	-2.5	-3.2	-2.5	-1.9	-2.1	-1.0	-2.1	-1.4	-1.7	-2.9	-2.8 ^(p)
Malta	6.1	8.2 ^(b)	6.7	6.5	7.0	5.8	6.9	6.1	8.1	1.8	7.8	2.2 ^(bp)
Netherlands	7.7	7.4	5.4	4.0	2.9	1.8	1.5	2.9	4.9	5.4	4.9	4.5
Austria	2.3	5.3	4.5	5.2	7.2	6.4	3.5	4.3	4.4	2.4	3.5	4.6
Poland	-0.2 ^(b)	-0.3	-0.6	-0.7	-0.4	-0.4	-0.8	-0.3	0.5	0.8	0.9	0.2 ^(bp)
Portugal	6.0	7.1	7.5	6.4	5.2	3.8	2.8	1.7	0.9	1.0	-0.1	-2.9 ^(bp)
Romania	-1.1	-27.0	-2.8	-2.8	-2.4	-2.2	-2.1	-1.7	-1.4	-1.7	-2.3 ^(p)	-2.7 ^(p)
Slovenia	1.2	2.0	0.5	0.7	0.6	2.9	3.5	7.7	10.9 ^(b)	7.2	1.6	2.6
Slovakia	-3.7	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.9	0.8	0.8	1.4	2.1	2.3	1.9	2.2 ^(b)
Finland	1.9	2.7	2.2	2.6	3.2	3.6	4.1	4.4	4.9	4.7	4.4	4.8
Sweden	2.4	3.0	3.5	3.9	4.0	4.0	7.2	7.6	8.0	9.1	8.0	7.1
United Kingdom	3.6	3.7	3.7	4.4	5.7	6.2	6.1	6.7	6.6	7.0	7.6 ^(p)	7.8 ^(p)
Iceland	15.3	11.3	6.6	7.2	10.3	21.3	25.6	25.0	12.3	-5.5	2.6	3.5
Liechtenstein	13.4	19.9	10.0	12.6	8.9	8.8	7.5	5.3	6.6	8.5	7.1	9.0 ^(p)
Norway	5.6	4.6	6.2	5.5	6.3	7.3	8.8	11.9	13.0	12.2	12.7	13.2
Switzerland	5.5	7.1	8.0	6.9	6.9	5.9	6.6	11.2	14.2	10.8	10.0	10.7 ^(bp)
Montenegro	3.7	3.7	3.6	3.2	2.8	1.0	2.1	4.2	4.2	4.4	2.9 ^(b)	..
Croatia	-13.2	1.3	-0.4	-0.2	0.5	-0.2	-0.4	-1.1	-0.3	-2.1	-3.1	-3.2
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	4.7	3.7	-7.4	3.1	2.6	1.6	1.7	1.6	1.7	2.0	2.2	1.2 ^(p)
Turkey	14.9	13.8	13.4	13.1	12.9	12.6	12.4 ^(p)	12.8 ^(b)	13.1	14.5	15.9	13.5

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

Source: Eurostat