# EU countries by natural population change, 2025

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `natural_change`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Live births minus deaths during the year. A negative value means more deaths than births (Eurostat).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Population change, natural change of population (demo_gind) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_gind/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Population change, natural change of population (demo_gind). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_gind/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/natural-population-change/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ireland | 18,644 |
| 2 | Sweden | 5,279 |
| 3 | Cyprus | 2,426 |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 2,043 |
| 5 | Denmark | 1,258 |
| 6 | Malta | 98 |
| 7 | France | -3,620 |
| 8 | Belgium | -3,889 |
| 9 | Slovenia | -4,262 |
| 10 | Estonia | -6,448 |
| 11 | Netherlands | -8,624 |
| 12 | Slovakia | -11,501 |
| 13 | Austria | -11,835 |
| 14 | Finland | -13,377 |
| 15 | Latvia | -14,178 |
| 16 | Croatia | -17,528 |
| 17 | Lithuania | -19,849 |
| 18 | Portugal | -34,053 |
| 19 | Czechia | -35,701 |
| 20 | Bulgaria | -49,238 |
| 21 | Hungary | -51,567 |
| 22 | Greece | -55,386 |
| 23 | Romania | -104,078 |
| 24 | Spain | -121,094 |
| 25 | Poland | -167,483 |
| 26 | Italy | -296,395 |
| 27 | Germany | -352,347 |