{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"europe-population-by-country","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-population-by-country","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-population-by-country/","title":"Population of European Countries (2026)","description":"Population on 1 January 2026 for 36 European countries, largest to smallest: Germany 83.47 million, France 69.11 million, Italy 58.94 million. 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Russia is larger than any of them but is not covered by this Eurostat collection; Turkey publishes to Eurostat but had not filed a 1 January 2026 figure when this page was compiled."},{"question":"Is Europe's population growing or shrinking?","answer":"The 35-country panel charted here reached 478.49 million, +0.75 million on the year. Growth is entirely a migration story: natural change — births minus deaths — is negative across most of the continent, and the countries still adding people are the ones receiving net inflows. Strip migration out and the aggregate falls."},{"question":"Which European countries are losing population fastest?","answer":"The clearest declines are concentrated in eastern and south-eastern Europe, where low fertility and sustained emigration compound. The Baltic states, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia have each shed a substantial share of their population since 2000, and Poland and Hungary have turned negative more recently. The year-on-year column in the table shows which direction each country moved in the latest year."}]}