Statistics in theEuropean Union are collected byEurostat (European statistics body).
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 mostdensely populated country is the island ofMalta, which is also the smallest, while the largest in area is France. The least densely populated country isFinland.
The table below uses data fromEurostat.[4][5]
| Member State | Population | % pop. | Area km2 | % area | Density /km2 |
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 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 |
For statistics relating to economy, please seeEconomy of the European Union.
The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to theEU 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 arebate. Expenditure in Luxembourg, Belgium and France include items for the EU administrative centres in each of those countries.
Figures below are inEuros, 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 |
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| 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 |
There are many indices available on issues such as corruption,development, andfreedom. The rankings below include all EU member states, EU candidates (with the exception of Turkey, as accession negotiations have stalled since 2016) and EFTA countries.
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Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) conducts an annual survey on thefreedom of the press and produces scores (not shown here) for each country, resulting in thePress 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]
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TheIndex of Economic Freedom, published byThe Wall Street Journal andThe 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 theWorld Economic Forum is itsGlobal Competitiveness Index.
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Transparency International is an international NGO publishing an annualGlobal Corruption Report indicating the perception of corruptionaround the world. The rankings of the table refer to theCorruption Perceptions Index 2022[1]. A high ranking means low corruption.
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TheHuman Development Index is a measure produced by the United Nations which covers three aspects of human development:
The rankings of the table refer to theUNDP Human Development Report 2019 (2018 data). The UN lists all EU member states as countries withvery high human development.
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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.
