Population of European Countries (2026)
Population on 1 January 2026 for the 36 European countries covered, largest to smallest: Germany 83.47 million, France 69.11 million, Italy 58.94 million. Eurostat data.
Data
| # | Country | million people | Change vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 83.47 | -0.11 |
| 2 | France | 69.11 | +0.23 |
| 3 | Italy | 58.94 | unchanged |
| 4 | Spain | 49.59 | +0.46 |
| 5 | Poland | 36.33 | -0.17 |
| 6 | Romania | 19.04 | unchanged |
| 7 | Netherlands | 18.13 | +0.09 |
| 8 | Belgium | 11.96 | +0.08 |
| 9 | Portugal | 11.42 | +0.03 |
| 10 | Czechia | 10.92 | +0.01 |
| 11 | Sweden | 10.61 | +0.02 |
| 12 | Greece | 10.37 | unchanged |
| 13 | Hungary | 9.49 | -0.05 |
| 14 | Austria | 9.22 | +0.02 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 9.12 | +0.07 |
| 16 | Serbia | 6.53 | -0.04 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 6.42 | -0.02 |
| 18 | Denmark | 6.03 | +0.04 |
| 19 | Finland | 5.65 | +0.01 |
| 20 | Norway | 5.63 | +0.04 |
| 21 | Ireland | 5.51 | +0.07 |
| 22 | Slovakia | 5.41 | -0.01 |
| 23 | Georgia | 3.94 | +0.24 |
| 24 | Croatia | 3.88 | +0.01 |
| 25 | Lithuania | 2.89 | unchanged |
| 26 | Albania | 2.34 | -0.02 |
| 27 | Slovenia | 2.14 | +0.01 |
| 28 | Latvia | 1.85 | -0.01 |
| 29 | North Macedonia | 1.82 | unchanged |
| 30 | Estonia | 1.36 | -0.01 |
| 31 | Cyprus | 1 | +0.02 |
| 32 | Luxembourg | 0.69 | +0.01 |
| 33 | Montenegro | 0.62 | unchanged |
| 34 | Malta | 0.59 | +0.02 |
| 35 | Iceland | 0.39 | unchanged |
| 36 | Liechtenstein | 0.04 | unchanged |
About this Dataset
Populations here are counted on 1 January 2026, the standard Eurostat reference date. Germany leads at 83.47 million, followed by France (69.11 million) and Italy (58.94 million). The five largest together account for 62% of the 482.43 million people across the 36 countries ranked. The table covers only countries with a Eurostat population series on this site, so the United Kingdom, Russia and Turkey are not in it and each rank is a position within this set.
Most of the largest countries in this table now depend on net immigration to avoid shrinking. Deaths exceed births in most of them, and have done for years.
The interesting movement is at the margins rather than the top. Spain has climbed to fourth place at 49.59 million after several years of the fastest absolute growth in western Europe, driven almost entirely by arrivals. Poland sits fifth with 36.33 million, and the direction there has reversed: Poland is now losing people year on year. The smallest entries (Liechtenstein, Iceland and Malta) are included because they report on the same harmonised basis, not because their totals are comparable in any practical sense.
Every row is the figure published for 2026; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. Turkey has not published a 2026 figure and is left out rather than carried forward from an older year. The chart tracks a fixed panel of 35 countries: those reporting in every year from 2005. The line therefore moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. Georgia reports on this collection but revised its population base in the latest year, so it is excluded from the charted panel to keep the aggregate comparable over time.
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