European Union statistics

Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat (European statistics body).

Area and population

EU and UK population cartogram

As of 1 January 2006, the population of the EU was about 493 million people, although in 2020 the EU lost over 10% of its population as a result of the UK leaving the bloc.[1] Many countries are expected to experience a decline in population over the coming decades,[2] though this could be offset with new countries planning to join the EU within the next 20 years. The most populous member state is Germany, with an estimated 80.4 million people. France and Ireland have the highest birth-rates.[3] The most densely populated country is the island of Malta, which is also the smallest, while the largest in area is France. The least densely populated country is Finland.

Population figures in the table below are from 2006 or 2007 estimates. The highest and lowest figures in each column have been marked in bold.

Member State	Population in millions	Population % of EU	Area km²	Area % of EU	Pop. density People/km²
European Union	494.8	100%	4,422,773	100%	112
Austria	8.3	1.7%	83,858	1.9%	99
Belgium	10.5	2.1%	30,510	0.7%	344
Bulgaria	7.7	1.6%	110,912	2.5%	70
Croatia	4.3	0.9%	56,594	1.3%	75.8
Cyprus	0.8	0.2%	9,250	0.2%	84
Czech Republic	10.3	2.1%	78,866	1.8%	131
Denmark	5.4	1.1%	43,094	1.0%	126
Estonia	1.3	0.3%	45,226	1.0%	29
Finland	5.3	1.1%	337,030	7.6%	16
France[4]	65.03	13.%	643,548	14.6%	111
Germany	80.4	16.6%	357,021	8.1%	225
Greece	11.1	2.2%	131,940	3.0%	84
Hungary	10.1	2.0%	93,030	2.1%	108
Ireland	4.6	0.9%	70,280	1.6%	60
Italy	58.8	11.9%	301,320	6.8%	195
Latvia	2.3	0.5%	64,589	1.5%	35
Lithuania	3.4	0.7%	65,200	1.5%	45
Luxembourg	0.5	0.1%	2,586	0.1%	181
Malta	0.4	0.1%	316	0.0007%	1,261
Netherlands	17	3.3%	41,526	0.9%	394
Poland	38.1	7.7%	312,685	7.1%	122
Portugal	10.6	2.1%	92,931	2.1%	114
Romania	21.6	4.4%	238,391	5.4%	91
Spain	44.7	9.0%	504,782	11.4%	87
Slovakia	5.4	1.1%	48,845	1.1%	111
Slovenia	2.0	0.4%	20,253	0.5%	99
Sweden	10	1.8%	449,964	10.2%	20

Economy

For statistics relating to economy, please see Economy of the European Union.

EU budget

The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to the EU budget, and receives funding back from the EU, depending on the relative wealth of the states, i.e. their ability to pay.

The table below shows the contributions as a percentage of the total budget. This takes into account the special considerations given to the United Kingdom to reduce its contribution through a rebate. Expenditure in Luxembourg, Belgium and France include items for the EU administrative centres in each of those countries.

Member State	Total contribution in Euro	Total contribution as % of total EU budget	Total expenditure year 2006 in Euro	Total expenditure as % of total EU budget	Net contribution in Euro	Net contribution in Euro per capita	Total contribution in Euro per capita
European Union	105,259,468,772	100.00%	106,575,500,000	100.00%	-1,316,031,228	-3	213
Germany	22,218,438,941	21.11%	12,242,400,000	11.49%	9,976,038,941	124	276
France	17,303,107,859	16.44%	13,496,200,000	12.66%	3,806,907,859	59	266
Italy	14,359,479,157	13.64%	10,922,300,000	10.25%	3,437,179,157	58	244
United Kingdom	13,739,900,046	13.05%	8,294,200,000	7.78%	5,445,700,046	90	226
Spain	8,957,286,488	8.51%	12,883,000,000	12.09%	-3,925,713,512	-88	200
Netherlands	5,552,933,781	5.28%	2,190,400,000	2.06%	3,362,533,781	198	327
Belgium	4,035,286,807	3.83%	5,625,100,000	5.28%	-1,589,813,193	-151	384
Sweden	2,832,862,800	2.69%	1,573,400,000	1.48%	1,259,462,800	126	283
Austria	2,308,432,030	2.19%	1,830,100,000	1.72%	478,332,030	58	278
Denmark	2,130,860,212	2.02%	1,501,900,000	1.41%	628,960,212	116	395
Poland	2,099,087,114	1.99%	5,305,600,000	4.98%	-3,206,512,886	-84	55
Greece	1,882,611,879	1.79%	6,833,700,000	6.41%	-4,951,088,121	-446	170
Finland	1,544,832,284	1.47%	1,280,400,000	1.20%	264,432,284	50	291
Portugal	1,443,049,602	1.37%	3,634,800,000	3.41%	-2,191,750,398	-207	136
Ireland	1,341,281,313	1.27%	2,461,800,000	2.31%	-1,120,518,687	-244	292
Hungary	1,003,119,411	0.95%	1,842,200,000	1.73%	-839,080,589	-83	99
Czech Republic	932,392,859	0.89%	1,330,000,000	1.25%	-397,607,141	-39	91
Slovakia	393,148,777	0.37%	696,200,000	0.65%	-303,051,223	-56	73
Slovenia	299,993,572	0.29%	406,000,000	0.38%	-106,006,428	-53	150
Luxembourg	241,439,011	0.23%	1,194,800,000	1.12%	-953,360,989	-1,907	483
Lithuania	221,997,405	0.21%	799,800,000	0.75%	-577,802,595	-170	65
Cyprus	144,556,416	0.14%	239,600,000	0.22%	-95,043,584	-119	181
Latvia	115,205,431	0.11%	402,600,000	0.24%	-287,394,569	-125	50
Estonia	100,756,308	0.10%	300,000,000	0.28%	-199,243,692	-142	72
Malta	57,409,269	0.05%	157,000,000	0.14%	-99,590,731	-249	144
Bulgaria			360,600,000	0.34%	-360,600,000	-47
Romania			693,100,000	0.65%	-693,100,000	-32

Economic and governance-related rankings

There are many indices available on issues such as corruption, development, and freedom. The rankings below include all EU member states, EU candidates (with the exception of Turkey, cause their accession negotiations have stalled since 2016) and EFTA countries.

Freedom of the press

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Norway	1
2	Finland	2
3	Denmark	3
4	Sweden	5
5	Netherlands	6
6	Switzerland	8
7	Portugal	10
8	Germany	11
9	Belgium	12
10	Ireland	13
11	Estonia	14
12	Iceland	15
13	Luxembourg	17
14	Austria	18
15	Latvia	22
16	Cyprus	27
17	Lithuania	28

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
18	Spain	29
19	Slovenia	32
20	Slovakia	33
21	France	34
22	Czech Republic	40
23	Italy	41
24	Romania	48
25	Croatia	59
26	Poland	62
27	Greece	65
28	Malta	81
29	Albania	85
30	Hungary	89
31	North Macedonia	92
32	Serbia	93
33	Montenegro	105
34	Bulgaria	111

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) conducts an annual survey on the freedom of the press and produces scores (not shown here) for each country, resulting in the Press Freedom Index. In 2019 and 2020, Finland was proclaimed as having the freest press in the European Union, and the second in the world behind Norway. Bulgaria was ranked as having the least free press in the European Union in 2019 and 2020.[5]

Colour Codes
Good Situation
Satisfactory Situation
Noticeable problems
Difficult situation

Economic freedom

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Switzerland	5
2	Ireland	6
3	Denmark	8
4	Estonia	10
5	Iceland	13
6	Netherlands	14
7	Lithuania	16
8	Luxembourg	19
9	Finland	20
10	Sweden	22
11	Czech Republic	23
12	Germany	27
13	Norway	28
14	Austria	29
15	Latvia	32
16	Bulgaria	36
17	Cyprus	37

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
18	Romania	38
19	North Macedonia	41
20	Malta	42
21	Poland	46
22	Belgium	48
23	Slovenia	52
24	Portugal	56
25	Albania	57
26	Spain	58
27	Slovakia	60
28	Hungary	62
29	France	64
30	Serbia	65
31	Italy	74
32	Croatia	84
33	Montenegro	91
34	Greece	100

An index of Economic Freedom is produced by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation. It uses 50 different variables to compile the survey, in areas such as trade policy and government intervention.

A similar index produced by the World Economic Forum is its Global Competitiveness Index.

Source: 2020 Index of Economic Freedom.

Colour Codes
Free
Mostly Free
Moderately Free
Moderately Unfree

Perception of corruption

Global Rank	Country	Score
1	Denmark	88
3	Finland	85
3	Switzerland	85
3	Sweden	84
7	Norway	84
8	Netherlands	82
9	Luxembourg	80
9	Germany	80
11	United Kingdom	77
15	Austria	76
15	Belgium	76
17	Estonia	75
17	Iceland	75
20	Ireland	72
23	France	68
32	Spain	62
33	Portugal	61
35	Lithuania	60
35	Slovenia	60
42	Cyprus	57
42	Latvia	57
45	Poland	56

Global Rank	Country	Score
45	Georgia	56
49	Czech Republic	54
52	Malta	53
52	Italy	53
59	Greece	50
60	Slovakia	49
60	Armenia	49
63	Croatia	47
63	Belarus	47
67	Montenegro	45
69	Bulgaria	44
69	Hungary	44
69	Romania	44
86	Turkey	40
94	Serbia	38
104	Albania	36
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35
111	North Macedonia	35
115	Moldova	35
117	Ukraine	33
129	Azerbaijan	30
129	Russia	30

Transparency International is an international NGO publishing an annual Global Corruption Report indicating the perception of corruption around the world. The rankings of the table refer to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2019 . A high ranking means low corruption.

Human development

Rank	Country	Global Rank
1	Norway	1
2	Ireland	2
3	Switzerland	2
4	Iceland	4
5	Germany	6
6	Sweden	7
7	Netherlands	8
8	Denmark	10
9	Finland	11
10	United Kingdom	13
11	Belgium	14
12	Austria	18
13	Slovenia	22
14	Luxembourg	23
15	Spain	25
16	France	26
17	Czech Republic	27
18	Malta	28
19	Estonia	29
20	Italy	29
21	Greece	32
22	Cyprus	33

Rank	Country	Global Rank
23	Lithuania	34
24	Poland	35
25	Latvia	37
26	Portugal	38
27	Slovakia	39
28	Hungary	40
29	Croatia	43
30	Montenegro	48
31	Romania	49
32	Russia	52
33	Belarus	53
34	Turkey	54
35	Bulgaria	56
36	Georgia	61
37	Serbia	64
38	Albania	69
39	Bosnia and Herzegovina	73
40	Ukraine	74
41	Armenia	81
42	North Macedonia	82
43	Azerbaijan	88
44	Moldova	90

Colour Codes
Very High Human Development
High Human Development

The Human Development Index is a measure produced by the United Nations which covers three aspects of human development:

poverty (GDP per capita)
education (mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling)
health (life expectancy)

The rankings of the table refer to the UNDP Human Development Report 2019 (2018 data). The UN lists all EU member states as countries with very high human development.

Ease of doing business

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
1	Denmark	4
2	Norway	9
3	Sweden	10
4	Lithuania	11
5	North Macedonia	17
6	Estonia	18
7	Latvia	19
8	Finland	20
9	Germany	22
10	Ireland	24
11	Iceland	26
12	Austria	27
13	Spain	30
14	France	32
15	Switzerland	36
16	Slovenia	37
17	Portugal	39

EU Rank	Member State	Global Rank
18	Poland	40
19	Czech Republic	41
20	Netherlands	42
21	Serbia	44
22	Slovakia	45
23	Belgium	46
24	Montenegro	50
25	Croatia	51
26	Hungary	52
27	Cyprus	54
28	Romania	55
29	Italy	58
30	Bulgaria	61
31	Luxembourg	72
32	Greece	79
33	Albania	82
34	Malta	88

The Ease of Doing Business Index is created by the World Bank and based on the study of laws and regulations, with the input and verification by more than 3,500 government officials, lawyers, business consultants, accountants and other professionals who routinely advise on or administer legal and regulatory requirements.

The data in the table are from the 2020 report.[6]

Colour Codes
Very Easy
Easy

Income equality

Rank	Country	Tot Cases/ 1M Pop
1	Montenegro	60.892
2	Luxembourg	60.628
3	Czech Republic	50.919
4	Belgium	50.807
5	Slovenia	41.271
6	Switzerland	39.680
7	Croatia	36.723
8	Spain	36.336
9	France	34.919
10	Austria	33.608
11	Netherlands	32.489
12	North Macedonia	32.309
13	Portugal	31.665
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28.884
15	Moldova	28.875
16	Italy	28.300
17	Poland	28.112
18	Lithuania	27.590
19	Sweden	27.543
20	Romania	26.774

Rank	Country	Tot Cases/ 1M Pop
21	Hungary	25.936
22	United Kingdom	25.327
23	Serbia	25.183
24	Malta	23.798
25	Bulgaria	23.224
26	Slovakia	21.376
27	Ukraine	18.645
28	Russia	16.859
29	Iceland	16.020
30	Denmark	15.619
31	Belarus	15.576
32	Albania	14.945
33	Ireland	14.905
34	Germany	14.008
35	Latvia	11.354
36	Estonia	11.288
37	Greece	11.102
38	Cyprus	10.057
39	Norway	7.023
40	Finland	4.984

Colour Codes
0-15.000
15.001 - 25.000
25.001 - 35.000
35.001 and more

Income inequality, measured by the gini coefficient is how evenly incomes are distributed through the population. Denmark has the least income inequality with a gini coefficient score of 24.4, whilst Portugal has the most income inequality with a score of 38.5. Malta, Luxembourg, and Cyprus have no statistics available, and so are not included in this table. These statistics have been compiled by the United Nations (see )

References

"Total Population as of 01.01.06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine", EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
"The EU's baby blues", BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
"France claims EU fertility crown ", BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
Figures for France include the four overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion) which are integral parts of the European Union, but do not include the overseas collectivities and territories, which are not part of the European Union. Figures for Metropolitan France proper are: population 63.6 million, area 551 695 km², and population density 113/km².
World Press Freedom Index 2019 and World Press Freedom Index 2020, Reporters Without Borders
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings/

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[1] "Total Population as of 01.01.06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine", EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006.

[2] "The EU's baby blues", BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.

[3] "France claims EU fertility crown ", BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.

[4] Figures for France include the four overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion) which are integral parts of the European Union, but do not include the overseas collectivities and territories, which are not part of the European Union. Figures for Metropolitan France proper are: population 63.6 million, area 551 695 km², and population density 113/km².

[5] World Press Freedom Index 2019 and World Press Freedom Index 2020, Reporters Without Borders

[6] ttp://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings/