Population change - crude rates of total change, natural change and net migration plus adjustment

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for population change was 5.40 .

That is a 15.6% fell versus 2023 (6.40).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 80.0% higher.

Across member states, Malta reported the highest value (18.7, 2024) and Slovakia the lowest (0.40, 2024) — a ratio of 46.7× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tps00019; every value links back to the canonical source.