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- Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s population is expected to decline by 22.5% from 6.9 million in 2020 to 5.4 million in 2050. Mass outbound migration is the largest contributor towards Bulgaria’s population decline.
- Lithuania. The Lithuanian population is projected to shrink by 22.1% over the next three decades. The population is expected to shrink from 2.7 million to 2.1 million people.
- Latvia. Latvia is expecting a 21.6% population loss between 2020 and 2050. Latvia has lost about one-fifth of its population since joining the European Union in May 2004.
- Ukraine. Ukraine’s population is projected to drop from 43.7 million in 2020 to 35.2 million in 2050, a 19.5% loss. High emigration rates coupled with high death rates and low birth rates are to blame for Ukraine’s population loss.
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- Worldwide Population Decline
- Georgia
- Portugal
- Palau
- Hungary
- Albania
- Greece
- Ukraine
The population of the European Union (EU) recently dropped for the second year in a row, continuing a trend of slowed population growth in recent decades. As is the case in many developed countries around the world, fertility rates in Europe have dropped, and people are living longer lives. This leads to an older population and not enough births to...
Island nations, especially those whose citizens have the ability to freely travel to larger nations, have been experiencing dramatic population declinein recent years. Of the reasons this is happening, out-migration is one of the root causes. Fertility rates have dropped in most of these nations, but the reason populations are decreasing so rapidly...
The worldwide population has recently reached eight billion, but its growth rate has slowed noticeably in the past decades. One of the main reasons for this is dramatically lower fertility rates. With fertility rates dropping from 5.3 per woman in 1963 to 2.3 in 2020, the world’s population has begun to increase much more slowly. Lower fertility ra...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.19% 2021 Population:3,708,610 Georgia’s population has experienced negative average growth over the past decade, and it can be attributed to a variety of factors. One of these is the difference between childbirths and deaths in the country. Especially in 2020 and 2021, deaths outweighed childbirths in Georgia, ...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.22% 2021 Population:10,325,147 Despite experiencing a positive net migration growth over the past decade, Portugal’s population has declined by around 2% — its 2021 population was similar to figures for 2001. It is the first decade since 1960-70that the country has experienced a decline. Low birth rates and an ...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.26% 2021 Population: 18,024 Palau’s locationin the region of Micronesia is likely a contributor to the population decline it has experienced over the past decade and beyond. As we explored earlier in this post, there is a trend among some isolated island nations of negative net migration due to residents seekin...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.27% 2021 Population:9,709,891 Hungary has seen a steady negative population growth for the past ten years, but the decline in 2021 was the most dramatic in nearly 150 years. The significant decrease in population has been largely attributed to an increase in deaths due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, w...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.32% 2021 Population:2,811,666 The population decline in Albania, located in the Balkans,started in 1990 due to mass emigration following the end of the Enver Hoxha dictatorship. This was the first time in four decades that residents were allowed to freely leave the country, and much of the population was ready ...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.4% 2021 Population: 2,811,666 In Greece, the population has been steadily declining since 2011. An average growth rate of -0.4% per year over the past decade has meant a decrease in nearly 4% of the population. Of the factors at play is the fact that Greece has one of the fastest-aging populations in the EU. A ...
2011-21 Average Population Growth: -0.42% 2021 Population:43,792,855 There are three countries tied with an average population growth of -0.42%, and Ukraine is the largest by far. Ukraine’s pattern of population decline isn’t new, but it has recently become much worse. Exacerbating a decline that began following the country’s independence in 1991, ...
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- Greece. Population Decline Between 2020 to 2050: 13.40% Annual Population Change: -0.70% Composite Ranking: 11. Greece's population decline is a recent phenomenon exacerbated by the financial crisis that began in 2009.
- Latvia. Population Decline Between 2020 to 2050: 21.60% Annual Population Change: -1.00% Composite Ranking: 12. After gaining independence in 1991, Latvia has witnessed a population decrease of approximately 27%, declining from 2.6 million in 1990 to 1.8 million now.
- Lithuania. Population Decline Between 2020 to 2050: 22.10% Annual Population Change: 1.10% Composite Ranking: 13. Among countries where the population is continuously decreasing, Lithuania is experiencing one of the most severe declines.
- Poland. Population Decline Between 2020 to 2050: 12% Annual Population Change: -0.50% Composite Ranking: 14. Poland's fertility rate, at approximately 1.32 births per woman, falls below the replacement level, making it one of the countries with declining populations.
Key findings from the data include: Bulgaria tops the list, with a projected population decline of 22.5 percent from 2020 to 2050--the most significant decrease globally. This is closely followed by Lithuania at 22.1 percent, and Latvia at 21.6 percent.
The list of countries with declining populations was compiled based on projected population decreases from 2020 to 2025 and their annual rate of population change. We used the UN...
Jan 10, 2023 · These charts highlight the changing world population between 2022 and 2050, showing which countries are growing—and shrinking—the fastest.
May 22, 2021 · Published May 22, 2021 Updated May 24, 2021. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Leer en español. All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal...
