European Union Population Nears 500 Million
The European Union's population is on course to break through the 500 million mark in 2009. Latest figures from the EU statistics agency, Eurostat, indicated that on Monday. The total number of people living in the European Union's 27 states rose by 2,1 million, or 0,4%, over 12 months to January and now stands at 499,8 million people, the latest figures from Eurostat showed. It was the fourth year in a row that the population had risen and comes despite a drop in the birthrate in Germany, the EU's most populous country.The increase was down to a moderate rise in the birth rate while the death rate had remained relatively constant, said Eurostat. The highest increase in the birth rate was an 0.8 per cent jump recorded in Lithuania, which amounted to 35,000 births. But its population continued to fall because the country recorded 44,000 deaths. In contrast, the population in France increased by 368 000 to 64,4 million people; in Spain by 545 000 to 45,8 million; and in Italy by 434 000 to 60,1 million. Britain's population increased 441 000 to 61,6 million.
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