Population:
503,824,373 (July 2012 est.) |
The European Commissions Humanitarian Aid Office, or "ECHO", provides humanitarian aid from the EU to developing countries. In 2006 its budget amounted to €671 million, 48% of which went to the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Counting the EU's own contributions and those of its member states together, the EU is the largest aid donor in the world. |
Languages:
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
note: only official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - over 19% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken language - about 49% of the EU population is conversant with it (2007)
Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish
Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.44% (male 38,992,677/female 36,940,450)
15-64 years: 67.23% (male 166,412,403/female 164,295,636)
65 years and over: 17.33% (male 35,376,333/female 49,853,361) (2009 est.)
Median age:
note - see individual country entries of member states (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.212 % (2012 est.)
Birth rate:
10.27 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Death rate:
10.05 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.90 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.73 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2012 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 4.49 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 190
male: 4.96 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.99 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.76 years
country comparison to the world: 36
male: 76.91 years
female: 82.76 years (2012 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.58 children born/woman (2012 est.) |
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