# EU countries by population growth, 2025

All 27 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `population_growth`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Exponential rate of change of the mid-year population from the previous year to the reported year, as a percentage. Includes births, deaths and migration.
- Source: World Bank, Population growth, annual % (SP.POP.GROW) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-09
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Population growth, annual % (SP.POP.GROW). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/population-growth/eu-countries
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/population-growth/eu-countries.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Malta | 1.89 |
| 2 | Ireland | 1.63 |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 1.46 |
| 4 | Spain | 1.03 |
| 5 | Portugal | 1.03 |
| 6 | Cyprus | 0.91 |
| 7 | Belgium | 0.7 |
| 8 | Denmark | 0.54 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 0.52 |
| 10 | Finland | 0.47 |
| 11 | Austria | 0.33 |
| 12 | Croatia | 0.26 |
| 13 | Sweden | 0.25 |
| 14 | France | 0.25 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 0.17 |
| 16 | Greece | 0.08 |
| 17 | Lithuania | 0.02 |
| 18 | Germany | -0.03 |
| 19 | Italy | -0.06 |
| 20 | Bulgaria | -0.13 |
| 21 | Slovakia | -0.15 |
| 22 | Romania | -0.17 |
| 23 | Czechia | -0.17 |
| 24 | Poland | -0.34 |
| 25 | Estonia | -0.43 |
| 26 | Hungary | -0.5 |
| 27 | Latvia | -0.99 |