EU population shrinks for second year in a row in 2021, partly due to the pandemic

The EU's population declined in 2021 for the second year in a row, in part due to the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest figures released by Eurostat, the EU.

The total population of the 27 EU member states fell from 447 million on 1 January 2021 to 446.8 on 1 January 2022, the European statistics office said in a note, a net decline of about 172,000 people.

The only other time since the 1960s that the EU registered a fall in population was in 2011, but it picked up the following year due to net migration.

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