The demographic situation in the European Union.
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TL;DR
This article draws selected material from the annual Yearbook on Demography (2000 edition) published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, together with a broad picture of the demographic situation in the European Union.
Abstract
This article is an update of a similar article published in Population Trends 104 and complements the article on European-wide issues in population statistics, published in Population Trends 118. The main areas of demography are covered, namely population change, population composition, fertility and mortality. Eurostat are currently working on a new set of population projections which should be available shortly, but were not completed when this article was drafted.