The population of the European Union (EU) will grow again in 2023 to 449.2 million people after a decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Eurostat reported on Thursday, attributing the increase to positive net migration.
“After a decline in 2020 and 2021 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU population grew for the second year in a row, increasing from 447.6 million on 1 January 2023 to 449.2 million on 1 January 2024,” the EU statistics office said.
Eurostat clarifies that “the negative natural variation – more deaths than births – is overcome by positive net migration.”
“The observed population growth can be largely explained by the increase in migration movements following Covid-19 and the influx of displaced persons from Ukraine who were granted temporary protection status in EU countries as a result of Russia’s war of aggression in February 2022,” it further states.
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