Inforegio - A new data story on regional demographic trends in the EU

Inforegio - A new data story on regional demographic trends in the EU

(...) Given the ageing baby boom in the EU, its population is very likely to start shrinking in the coming years because natural change will become too negative to be offset by migration. As a result more and more regions will have a shrinking population in the future. Already today, one out of three EU residents lives in a shrinking region. In in eastern EU regions, this is the case for two out of three residents. (...)