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Population up to 875,900 in Cyprus

10/07/2019 16:07

The population of Cyprus increased from 864 200 in 2018 to 875 900 in 2019 , or by +13.4 (0.2% of the EU total).

In Greece the population decreased from 10.7412 million in 2018 to 10.7223 milion in 2019 or by -1.8 (2.1 of the EU total), according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, which issued a press release ahead of the World Population Day (11 July)

According to Eurostat, on 1 January 2019, the population of the European Union (EU) was estimated at almost 513.5 million, compared with 512.4 million on 1 January 2018. During 2018, more deaths than births were recorded in the EU (5.3 million deaths and 5.0 million births), meaning that the natural change of the EU population was negative for a second consecutive year.

The population change (positive, with 1.1 million more inhabitants) was therefore due to net migration. With 83.0 million residents (or 16.2% of the total EU population at 1 January 2019), Germany is the most populated EU Member State, ahead of France (67.0 million, or 13.1%), the United Kingdom (66.6 million, or 13.0%), Italy (60.4 million, or 11.8%), Spain (46.9 million, or 9.1%) and Poland (38.0 million, or 7.4%). For the remaining Member States, fourteen have a share of between 1% and 4% of the EU population and eight a share below 1%.

During 2018, the population increased in eighteen EU Member States and decreased in ten. The largest population increase was observed in Malta (+36.8 per 1 000 residents), ahead of Luxembourg (+19.6‰), Ireland (+15.2‰), Cyprus (+13.4‰), Sweden (+10.8‰), Slovenia (+6.8‰), Belgium (+6.1‰), Spain and the Netherlands (both +5.9‰) and the United Kingdom (+5.6‰). In contrast, the largest population decrease was recorded in Latvia (-7.5‰), followed by Bulgaria and Croatia (both -7.1‰), Romania (-6.6‰) and Lithuania (-5.3‰). The population of the entire EU increased by 1.1 million people (+2.1‰) during 2018.

During the year 2018, 5.0 million babies were born in the EU, almost 118 000 fewer than the previous year. Across Member States, the highest crude birth rates in 2018 were recorded in Ireland (12.5 per 1 000 residents), Sweden (11.4‰), France (11.3‰) and the United Kingdom (11.0‰), while the lowest were registered in Italy (7.3‰), Spain (7.9‰), Greece (8.1‰), Portugal (8.5‰), Finland (8.6‰), Bulgaria (8.9‰) and Croatia (9.0‰). At EU level, the crude birth rate was 9.7 per 1 000 residents. In the meantime, 5.3 million deaths were registered in the EU in 2018, almost 46 000 more than the previous year. Ireland (6.4 per 1 000 residents), Cyprus (6.6‰) and Luxembourg (7.1‰) had in 2018 the lowest crude death rates, followed by Malta (7.6‰), the Netherlands (8.9‰), Spain and Sweden (both 9.1‰).

At the opposite end of the scale, Bulgaria (15.4‰), Latvia (15.0‰), Lithuania (14.1‰), Romania (13.5‰) and Hungary (13.4‰) recorded the highest. For the EU as a whole, the crude death rate was 10.4 per 1 000 residents. Consequently, Ireland (with a natural change of its population of +6.1‰) remained in 2018 the Member State where births most outnumbered deaths, ahead of Cyprus (+4.1‰), Luxembourg (+3.2‰), Sweden (+2.3‰), France (+2.2‰), the United Kingdom (+1.7‰) and Malta (+1.6‰). In contrast, among the fifteen EU Member States which registered a negative natural change in 2018, deaths outnumbered births the most in Bulgaria (-6.6‰), followed by Latvia (-4.9‰), Lithuania (-4.1‰), Croatia, Hungary and Romania (all -3.9‰).

Finally according to a baseline population projection scenario, the EU’s population will continue to grow older generally.

The proportion of children is projected to decrease slightly from a share of 16% at the beginning of 2018 to 14% by 2100. Similarly, the share of working-age people in the EU’s total population is projected to decrease from 65% in 2018 to 55% in 2100.

In contrast, the share of those aged 65 years or above in EU’s total population is projected to increase by 11 percentage points, from 20% at the start of 2018 to 31% by 2100. In the same period, the share of those aged 80 years or above is calculated to almost triple, from 6% to 15%.

As a result, the median age is projected to increase from the current 43.1 years to 48.7 in 2100.

As a result of these population changes, the EU’s old-age dependency ratio is projected to almost double from 31% in 2018 to 57% in 2100. This corresponds to fewer than two people of working-age for each elderly person aged 65 or over by 2100.
By 2100, the old-age dependency ratio is projected to range from 53% in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden up to 70% in Portugal and 72% in Croatia.

According to the Eurostat projection the population in Cyprus in 2100 will be 1.1 million and in Greece 7.5 million.