European Union statistics

Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat (European statistics body).

Area and population

EU and UK population cartogram

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 most densely populated country is the island of Malta, which is also the smallest, while the largest in area is France. The least densely populated country is Finland.

Population figures in the table below are from 2006 or 2007 estimates. The highest and lowest figures in each column have been marked in bold.

Member State	Population in millions	Population % of EU	Area km²	Area % of EU	Pop. density People/km²
European Union	494.8	100%	4,422,773	100%	112
Austria	8.3	1.7%	83,858	1.9%	99
Belgium	10.5	2.1%	30,510	0.7%	344
Bulgaria	7.7	1.6%	110,912	2.5%	70
Croatia	4.3	0.9%	56,594	1.3%	75.8
Cyprus	0.8	0.2%	9,250	0.2%	84
Czech Republic	10.3	2.1%	78,866	1.8%	131
Denmark	5.4	1.1%	43,094	1.0%	126
Estonia	1.3	0.3%	45,226	1.0%	29
Finland	5.3	1.1%	337,030	7.6%	16
France[4]	65.03	13.%	643,548	14.6%	111
Germany	80.4	16.6%	357,021	8.1%	225
Greece	11.1	2.2%	131,940	3.0%	84
Hungary	10.1	2.0%	93,030	2.1%	108
Ireland	4.6	0.9%	70,280	1.6%	60
Italy	58.8	11.9%	301,320	6.8%	195
Latvia	2.3	0.5%	64,589	1.5%	35
Lithuania	3.4	0.7%	65,200	1.5%	45
Luxembourg	0.5	0.1%	2,586	0.1%	181
Malta	0.4	0.1%	316	0.0007%	1,261
Netherlands	17	3.3%	41,526	0.9%	394
Poland	38.1	7.7%	312,685	7.1%	122
Portugal	10.6	2.1%	92,931	2.1%	114
Romania	21.6	4.4%	238,391	5.4%	91
Spain	44.7	9.0%	504,782	11.4%	87
Slovakia	5.4	1.1%	48,845	1.1%	111
Slovenia	2.0	0.4%	20,253	0.5%	99
Sweden	10	1.8%	449,964	10.2%	20

Economy

For statistics relating to economy, please see Economy of the European Union.

EU budget

The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to the EU 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 a rebate. Expenditure in Luxembourg, Belgium and France include items for the EU administrative centres in each of those countries.

Member State	Total contribution in Euro	Total contribution as % of total EU budget	Total expenditure year 2006 in Euro	Total expenditure as % of total EU budget	Net contribution in Euro	Net contribution in Euro per capita	Total contribution in Euro per capita
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

Freedom and governance-related rankings

There are many indices available on issues such as corruption, development, and freedom.

Freedom of the press

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Finland	2
2	Denmark	3
3	Sweden	5
4	Netherlands	6
5	Portugal	10
6	Germany	11
7	Belgium	12
8	Ireland	13
9	Estonia	14
10	Luxembourg	17
11	Austria	18
12	Latvia	22
13	Cyprus	27
14	Lithuania	28

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
15	Spain	29
16	Slovenia	32
17	Slovakia	33
18	France	34
19	Czech Republic	40
20	Italy	41
21	Romania	48
22	Croatia	59
23	Poland	62
24	Greece	65
25	Malta	81
26	Hungary	89
27	Bulgaria	111

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) conducts an annual survey on the freedom of the press and produces scores (not shown here) for each country, resulting in the Press 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.[5]

Economic freedom

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Denmark	9
2	Ireland	11
3	Estonia	13
4	Luxembourg	15
5	Finland	16
6	Netherlands	17
7	Sweden	18
8	Germany	19
9	Lithuania	22
10	Austria	25
11	Czech Republic	29
12	Belgium	40
13	Cyprus	41

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
14	Slovakia	42
15	Spain	46
16	Hungary	47
17	Malta	48
18	Latvia	55
19	Poland	57
20	Romania	59
21	Bulgaria	60
22	France	62
23	Portugal	67
24	Slovenia	76
25	Italy	83
26	Greece	117

An index of Economic Freedom is produced by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation. It uses 50 different variables to compile the survey, in areas such as trade policy and government intervention.

A similar index produced by the World Economic Forum is its Global Competitiveness Index.

Source: 2013 Index of Economic Freedom.

Colour Codes
Free
Mostly Free
Moderately Free
Mostly Unfree

Perception of corruption

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Denmark	=1
2	Finland	3
3	Sweden	4
4	Netherlands	8
5	Luxembourg	10
6	Germany	11
7	Austria	14
8	Belgium	17
9	Ireland	=18
=	Estonia	=18
11	France	21
12	Portugal	30
13	Poland	=36
=	Slovenia	=36

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
15	Lithuania	=38
=	Cyprus	=38
=	Czech Republic	=38
18	Spain	=41
=	Latvia	=41
20	Malta	51
21	Italy	53
22	Slovakia	57
23	Croatia	60
=	Romania	61
25	Hungary	64
26	Greece	67
27	Bulgaria	77

Transparency International is an international NGO publishing an annual Global Corruption Report indicating the perception of corruption around the world. The rankings of the table refer to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2018 . A high ranking means low corruption.

Human development

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Ireland	4
2	Germany	5
3	Sweden	7
4	Netherlands	10
5	Denmark	11
6	Finland	15
7	Belgium	17
8	Austria	20
9	Luxembourg	21
10	France	24
11	Slovenia	25
12	Spain	26
13	Czech Republic	27
14	Italy	28

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
15	Malta	29
16	Estonia	30
17	Greece	31
18	Cyprus	32
19	Poland	33
20	Lithuania	35
21	Slovakia	38
22	Portugal	=41
=	Latvia	=41
24	Hungary	45
25	Croatia	46
26	Bulgaria	51
27	Romania	52

The Human Development Index is a measure produced by the United Nations which covers three aspects of human development:

poverty (GDP per capita)
education (mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling)
health (life expectancy)

The rankings of the table refer to the UNDP Human Development Report 2018 (2017 data). The UN lists all EU member states as countries with very high human development.

Income equality

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Denmark	2
2	Sweden	4
3	Czech Republic	5
4	Slovakia	6
5	Hungary	10
=	Finland	10
7	Germany	14
8	Slovenia	15
9	Austria	18
10	Bulgaria	19
11	Netherlands	25
12	Romania	26

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
13	France	32
14	Belgium	33
15	Ireland	40
=	Greece	40
17	Poland	44
18	Spain	47
19	Estonia	50
20	Lithuania	51
21	Italy	51
22	Latvia	57
23	Portugal	59

Income inequality, measured by the gini coefficient is how evenly incomes are distributed through the population. Denmark has the least income inequality with a gini coefficient score of 24.4, whilst Portugal has the most income inequality with a score of 38.5. Malta, Luxembourg, and Cyprus have no statistics available, and so are not included in this table. These statistics have been compiled by the United Nations (see )

Ease of doing business

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Denmark	3
2	Sweden	9
3	Estonia	12
4	Finland	13
5	Latvia	14
6	Germany	17
7	Ireland	18
8	Austria	19
9	Lithuania	21
10	Poland	24
11	Portugal	25
12	Czech Republic	27
13	Netherlands	28
14	France	29

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
15	Slovenia	30
16	Spain	32
17	Slovakia	33
18	Romania	36
19	Bulgaria	39
20	Hungary	41
21	Belgium	42
22	Croatia	43
23	Cyprus	45
24	Italy	50
25	Luxembourg	59
26	Greece	61
27	Malta	76

The Ease of Doing Business Index is created by the World Bank and based on the study of laws and regulations, with the input and verification by more than 3,500 government officials, lawyers, business consultants, accountants and other professionals who routinely advise on or administer legal and regulatory requirements.

The data in the table are from the 2017 report.[6]

References

"Total Population as of 01.01.06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine", EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
"The EU's baby blues", BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
"France claims EU fertility crown ", BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
Figures for France include the four overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion) which are integral parts of the European Union, but do not include the overseas collectivities and territories, which are not part of the European Union. Figures for Metropolitan France proper are: population 63.6 million, area 551 695 km², and population density 113/km².
World Press Freedom Index 2019 and World Press Freedom Index 2020, Reporters Without Borders
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings/

External links

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[1] "Total Population as of 01.01.06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine", EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006.

[2] "The EU's baby blues", BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.

[3] "France claims EU fertility crown ", BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.

[4] Figures for France include the four overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion) which are integral parts of the European Union, but do not include the overseas collectivities and territories, which are not part of the European Union. Figures for Metropolitan France proper are: population 63.6 million, area 551 695 km², and population density 113/km².

[5] World Press Freedom Index 2019 and World Press Freedom Index 2020, Reporters Without Borders

[6] ttp://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings/