UN country group · UN WPP 2024

Europe and Northern America population

Europe and Northern America population now

1,133,351,493

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,128,505,616

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.13311 billion
Median age: 42.7
Aged 65+: 20.6%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2036

male female projection · one cell = 200,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

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AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Europe and Northern America in numbers

The UN counts 1,128,505,616 people in Europe and Northern America in mid-2023, and 13.9% of the world's people. That is 1.6 times its 1950 population of 717 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2036 at 1.14 billion, then falling to 1.07 billion by 2100.

Since 2020, more people have died here each year than have been born, and the UN's projection has that holding every year to 2100. The population still grows until 2036, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 28.9 in 1950 and 41.9 in 2023; the projection has 48.2 in 2100. 19.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 30.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2012 at 739 million; in 2023 it was 729 million.

Population, mid-2023: 1,128,505,616
Share of the world, 2023: 13.9%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.09% · +1,059,248 people
Births, 2023: 10,353,254
Deaths, 2023: 11,581,954
Net migration, 2023: +3,266,569
Children per woman, 2023: 1.47
Median age, 2023: 41.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 79.2 years
Population, mid-1950: 716,876,812
Projected, mid-2050: 1,129,607,644
Projected, mid-2100: 1,067,216,669

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Europe and Northern America, 1950–2100

Europe and Northern America: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	713,009,446	16,227,106	8,065,128	2.78	63.4
1951	estimate	720,744,177	16,247,939	8,242,816	2.77	63.4
1952	estimate	728,186,673	16,342,251	7,946,884	2.78	64.6
1953	estimate	736,081,531	16,354,654	7,905,744	2.78	65.2
1954	estimate	744,474,879	16,536,705	7,694,309	2.80	66.1
1955	estimate	753,063,200	16,594,288	7,662,476	2.81	66.7
1956	estimate	761,822,217	16,700,585	7,598,593	2.82	67.5
1957	estimate	770,604,226	16,882,266	7,677,389	2.84	67.7
1958	estimate	780,199,833	16,937,132	7,458,978	2.84	68.5
1959	estimate	789,829,817	17,037,746	7,525,929	2.85	68.7
1960	estimate	799,287,515	17,018,184	7,601,533	2.84	69.1
1961	estimate	808,852,155	16,901,637	7,547,832	2.82	69.5
1962	estimate	818,539,722	16,487,381	7,833,225	2.76	69.4
1963	estimate	827,935,311	16,307,077	7,935,321	2.73	69.6
1964	estimate	837,002,079	16,020,170	7,767,914	2.69	70.1
1965	estimate	845,767,629	15,401,319	7,998,200	2.58	70.1
1966	estimate	853,919,091	15,082,288	8,079,026	2.52	70.3
1967	estimate	861,733,294	14,975,557	8,169,628	2.47	70.4
1968	estimate	868,882,776	14,760,646	8,509,149	2.41	70.2
1969	estimate	876,032,661	14,777,288	8,708,342	2.38	70.1
1970	estimate	883,122,259	14,817,232	8,678,212	2.35	70.5
1971	estimate	889,554,010	14,711,667	8,745,676	2.29	70.7
1972	estimate	897,212,310	14,274,874	8,822,255	2.17	70.8
1973	estimate	904,189,266	13,964,155	8,926,708	2.08	71.0
1974	estimate	910,661,462	14,104,644	8,923,850	2.06	71.2
1975	estimate	916,837,811	13,966,143	9,060,592	2.00	71.3
1976	estimate	922,494,756	13,960,588	9,150,989	1.97	71.4
1977	estimate	928,285,812	14,043,636	9,114,320	1.95	71.7
1978	estimate	934,111,972	14,025,611	9,279,192	1.91	71.8
1979	estimate	939,723,824	14,175,376	9,344,633	1.91	71.9
1980	estimate	945,611,513	14,305,238	9,536,171	1.90	72.0
1981	estimate	951,950,557	14,213,328	9,552,015	1.87	72.2
1982	estimate	957,551,735	14,321,639	9,512,791	1.87	72.5
1983	estimate	963,021,635	14,342,828	9,733,436	1.86	72.6
1984	estimate	968,559,219	14,262,163	9,764,245	1.84	72.7
1985	estimate	973,938,760	14,225,729	9,913,646	1.83	72.9
1986	estimate	979,407,952	14,325,494	9,753,533	1.84	73.3
1987	estimate	985,138,894	14,328,528	9,729,275	1.84	73.6
1988	estimate	990,835,988	14,276,905	9,865,562	1.84	73.6
1989	estimate	996,792,676	14,063,490	9,913,215	1.82	73.7
1990	estimate	1,002,375,983	13,915,861	10,071,788	1.81	73.8
1991	estimate	1,008,467,568	13,473,067	10,197,067	1.76	73.8
1992	estimate	1,013,996,772	13,007,326	10,383,840	1.71	73.6
1993	estimate	1,017,689,896	12,471,238	10,940,885	1.65	73.1
1994	estimate	1,021,491,650	12,201,960	11,042,291	1.62	73.0
1995	estimate	1,025,764,784	11,922,563	11,129,053	1.59	73.2
1996	estimate	1,028,569,869	11,794,740	10,964,227	1.58	73.7
1997	estimate	1,031,670,065	11,658,922	10,811,437	1.57	74.2
1998	estimate	1,034,479,768	11,609,249	10,807,541	1.57	74.4
1999	estimate	1,036,393,356	11,479,971	11,050,282	1.56	74.3
2000	estimate	1,039,059,016	11,595,870	11,047,355	1.58	74.4
2001	estimate	1,042,269,372	11,514,036	11,047,983	1.57	74.6
2002	estimate	1,045,441,609	11,574,268	11,226,496	1.58	74.6
2003	estimate	1,050,301,214	11,781,192	11,366,632	1.60	74.7
2004	estimate	1,054,191,415	11,933,952	11,057,559	1.62	75.1
2005	estimate	1,058,390,080	11,962,271	11,187,054	1.62	75.2
2006	estimate	1,062,268,170	12,244,553	10,930,831	1.66	75.8
2007	estimate	1,066,330,296	12,508,275	10,878,763	1.70	76.1
2008	estimate	1,071,586,834	12,763,887	10,942,810	1.73	76.4
2009	estimate	1,076,602,878	12,698,481	10,825,954	1.71	76.8
2010	estimate	1,081,220,444	12,594,913	10,911,908	1.70	77.0
2011	estimate	1,085,842,296	12,425,104	10,760,051	1.68	77.5
2012	estimate	1,090,450,335	12,508,451	10,880,525	1.69	77.6
2013	estimate	1,094,795,935	12,328,496	10,866,857	1.67	77.9
2014	estimate	1,099,206,135	12,409,247	10,848,787	1.68	78.1
2015	estimate	1,103,825,753	12,325,724	11,136,724	1.68	78.1
2016	estimate	1,109,076,640	12,271,325	11,040,012	1.67	78.4
2017	estimate	1,114,245,994	11,857,198	11,158,852	1.62	78.6
2018	estimate	1,118,889,879	11,562,812	11,285,059	1.58	78.7
2019	estimate	1,123,194,487	11,273,536	11,262,961	1.55	78.9
2020	estimate	1,127,211,903	10,953,068	12,906,006	1.51	77.5
2021	estimate	1,127,304,884	10,956,003	13,417,410	1.52	76.9
2022	estimate	1,127,406,058	10,627,046	12,337,907	1.49	78.2
2023	estimate	1,127,486,678	10,353,254	11,581,954	1.47	79.2
2024	estimate	1,129,524,554	10,289,810	11,801,523	1.47	79.4
2025	projection	1,131,233,303	10,233,541	11,880,412	1.48	79.6
2026	projection	1,132,621,167	10,177,265	11,966,153	1.48	79.7
2027	projection	1,133,601,201	10,129,256	12,048,962	1.49	79.9
2028	projection	1,134,414,692	10,104,259	12,140,193	1.49	80.0
2029	projection	1,135,131,482	10,088,455	12,231,078	1.50	80.2
2030	projection	1,135,655,298	10,088,328	12,323,177	1.50	80.4
2031	projection	1,136,070,965	10,098,907	12,427,645	1.50	80.5
2032	projection	1,136,332,221	10,129,217	12,530,502	1.51	80.7
2033	projection	1,136,570,484	10,175,175	12,639,796	1.51	80.8
2034	projection	1,136,741,322	10,228,177	12,754,635	1.51	81.0
2035	projection	1,136,881,266	10,296,457	12,868,887	1.52	81.1
2036	projection	1,136,923,336	10,375,754	12,982,263	1.52	81.3
2037	projection	1,136,899,562	10,443,010	13,097,433	1.52	81.4
2038	projection	1,136,829,236	10,513,504	13,212,261	1.52	81.6
2039	projection	1,136,730,110	10,579,008	13,331,126	1.53	81.8
2040	projection	1,136,502,872	10,628,123	13,437,454	1.53	81.9
2041	projection	1,136,259,211	10,669,076	13,544,193	1.53	82.0
2042	projection	1,135,973,519	10,691,768	13,643,136	1.53	82.2
2043	projection	1,135,671,444	10,703,796	13,736,140	1.53	82.3
2044	projection	1,135,217,483	10,688,088	13,820,773	1.54	82.5
2045	projection	1,134,668,186	10,664,223	13,891,396	1.54	82.7
2046	projection	1,134,034,812	10,609,903	13,959,733	1.54	82.8
2047	projection	1,133,279,517	10,542,033	14,019,772	1.54	82.9
2048	projection	1,132,408,123	10,464,353	14,071,071	1.54	83.1
2049	projection	1,131,394,448	10,371,815	14,109,872	1.54	83.2
2050	projection	1,130,231,117	10,280,638	14,146,294	1.55	83.3
2051	projection	1,128,984,171	10,183,577	14,170,906	1.55	83.5
2052	projection	1,127,629,617	10,086,501	14,185,428	1.55	83.6
2053	projection	1,126,176,302	9,997,535	14,195,473	1.55	83.8
2054	projection	1,124,530,794	9,909,231	14,195,972	1.55	83.9
2055	projection	1,122,768,613	9,828,959	14,184,753	1.56	84.0
2056	projection	1,120,874,387	9,760,371	14,171,505	1.56	84.1
2057	projection	1,118,960,972	9,702,871	14,155,586	1.56	84.3
2058	projection	1,117,074,442	9,651,981	14,129,234	1.56	84.4
2059	projection	1,115,201,448	9,618,363	14,102,524	1.56	84.5
2060	projection	1,113,279,818	9,596,812	14,061,686	1.57	84.7
2061	projection	1,111,372,589	9,582,369	14,022,621	1.57	84.8
2062	projection	1,109,512,893	9,577,502	13,982,182	1.57	84.9
2063	projection	1,107,701,358	9,581,628	13,940,773	1.57	85.0
2064	projection	1,105,923,405	9,595,789	13,895,430	1.57	85.2
2065	projection	1,104,160,010	9,617,221	13,854,494	1.57	85.3
2066	projection	1,102,461,043	9,639,514	13,816,069	1.57	85.4
2067	projection	1,100,867,642	9,666,805	13,781,781	1.57	85.6
2068	projection	1,099,381,344	9,696,906	13,753,861	1.57	85.7
2069	projection	1,097,906,957	9,727,546	13,717,568	1.58	85.8
2070	projection	1,096,504,921	9,759,789	13,688,669	1.58	86.0
2071	projection	1,095,116,504	9,777,006	13,657,525	1.58	86.1
2072	projection	1,093,812,305	9,798,083	13,630,901	1.58	86.2
2073	projection	1,092,524,333	9,808,225	13,599,814	1.58	86.3
2074	projection	1,091,261,926	9,817,970	13,565,392	1.58	86.5
2075	projection	1,090,017,280	9,816,111	13,530,218	1.58	86.6
2076	projection	1,088,931,158	9,811,116	13,493,364	1.58	86.7
2077	projection	1,087,847,551	9,801,721	13,448,767	1.58	86.8
2078	projection	1,086,718,702	9,781,087	13,395,917	1.58	87.0
2079	projection	1,085,656,989	9,753,373	13,344,618	1.58	87.1
2080	projection	1,084,572,635	9,719,459	13,285,220	1.59	87.2
2081	projection	1,083,526,336	9,679,078	13,219,361	1.59	87.3
2082	projection	1,082,639,844	9,639,647	13,150,050	1.59	87.4
2083	projection	1,081,676,012	9,597,122	13,077,549	1.59	87.5
2084	projection	1,080,753,819	9,553,382	12,996,078	1.59	87.7
2085	projection	1,079,830,727	9,512,614	12,917,580	1.59	87.8
2086	projection	1,078,853,868	9,472,867	12,839,168	1.59	87.9
2087	projection	1,077,961,577	9,434,985	12,767,401	1.59	88.0
2088	projection	1,077,119,768	9,401,102	12,693,519	1.59	88.1
2089	projection	1,076,387,723	9,375,027	12,628,131	1.59	88.2
2090	projection	1,075,595,027	9,352,909	12,574,234	1.60	88.3
2091	projection	1,074,781,478	9,327,007	12,531,636	1.60	88.4
2092	projection	1,074,058,958	9,313,910	12,497,319	1.60	88.5
2093	projection	1,073,322,124	9,299,447	12,480,908	1.60	88.7
2094	projection	1,072,609,526	9,291,645	12,476,962	1.60	88.8
2095	projection	1,071,917,895	9,291,667	12,487,436	1.60	88.9
2096	projection	1,071,163,619	9,291,304	12,510,836	1.60	89.0
2097	projection	1,070,321,574	9,298,727	12,537,477	1.60	89.1
2098	projection	1,069,508,884	9,301,048	12,568,838	1.60	89.2
2099	projection	1,068,633,197	9,308,468	12,603,954	1.60	89.3
2100	projection	1,067,719,933	9,309,756	12,631,931	1.60	89.4

AGG · membership

What Europe and Northern America is

Europe and Northern America is one of the UN's analytical groupings. This dataset carries the group's totals, not its membership, so its countries are not listed here.

Show the numbers: Europe and Northern America, mid-2026, by single year of age

Europe and Northern America: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,255,120	4,988,390
1	5,314,960	5,046,880
2	5,367,100	5,097,140
3	5,463,950	5,190,360
4	5,624,520	5,345,950
5	5,705,360	5,424,450
6	5,791,780	5,508,200
7	5,966,970	5,674,270
8	6,136,230	5,830,300
9	6,367,340	6,045,600
10	6,524,310	6,188,660
11	6,566,960	6,225,920
12	6,591,920	6,249,240
13	6,636,380	6,285,360
14	6,669,330	6,312,770
15	6,666,450	6,316,860
16	6,739,300	6,392,060
17	6,864,300	6,512,530
18	6,922,840	6,573,760
19	6,899,480	6,556,890
20	6,865,080	6,530,650
21	6,858,160	6,526,930
22	6,850,700	6,516,360
23	6,792,200	6,451,910
24	6,746,330	6,396,270
25	6,801,990	6,431,100
26	6,816,130	6,422,510
27	6,795,720	6,396,390
28	6,819,780	6,426,210
29	6,851,560	6,467,370
30	6,934,250	6,558,140
31	7,048,400	6,680,990
32	7,186,080	6,829,110
33	7,404,490	7,062,320
34	7,667,100	7,336,190
35	7,923,180	7,598,030
36	8,040,690	7,745,090
37	8,043,860	7,776,260
38	8,062,870	7,818,110
39	8,055,280	7,846,110
40	8,031,150	7,853,420
41	7,954,370	7,805,550
42	7,909,620	7,770,890
43	7,899,300	7,776,090
44	7,795,240	7,718,390
45	7,812,690	7,776,040
46	7,798,760	7,778,690
47	7,615,300	7,610,740
48	7,508,460	7,528,620
49	7,426,670	7,474,350
50	7,362,390	7,446,870
51	7,326,980	7,434,410
52	7,237,870	7,363,840
53	7,210,480	7,371,780
54	7,290,180	7,512,330
55	7,389,570	7,622,130
56	7,383,080	7,591,900
57	7,204,850	7,495,370
58	7,094,740	7,449,270
59	7,060,950	7,440,970
60	7,084,430	7,518,280
61	7,170,170	7,670,880
62	7,157,960	7,735,640
63	7,062,350	7,689,500
64	6,954,900	7,679,840
65	6,854,230	7,691,300
66	6,686,190	7,608,780
67	6,449,930	7,439,570
68	6,220,230	7,266,000
69	5,975,130	7,105,470
70	5,730,290	6,943,840
71	5,494,410	6,758,530
72	5,207,300	6,484,910
73	4,935,580	6,245,770
74	4,690,410	6,028,140
75	4,470,530	5,807,330
76	4,300,920	5,667,920
77	4,050,860	5,373,960
78	3,807,460	5,082,730
79	3,477,420	4,714,310
80	2,910,580	3,994,580
81	2,533,360	3,522,000
82	2,351,640	3,326,830
83	2,131,840	3,131,690
84	1,934,130	3,012,160
85	1,762,800	2,896,740
86	1,577,660	2,712,850
87	1,377,230	2,454,910
88	1,181,540	2,178,620
89	982,443	1,878,140
90	797,898	1,581,450
91	631,704	1,304,680
92	485,316	1,051,620
93	374,666	866,632
94	287,121	708,780
95	212,771	556,031
96	151,066	422,320
97	102,071	308,844
98	66,512	216,662
99	41,561	146,890
100+	55,705	241,272

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Europe and Northern America, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Europe and Northern America

Europe and Northern America had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2012: 738,780,000 people aged 15–64, against 729,132,000 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

25 children

30 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 26 years: 1984–1990 and 1996–2014.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Europe and Northern America, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Europe and Northern America gains 2,676,284 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 620,140 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 100,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 4,511,870 (2002) and the most it lost was 562,599 (1951).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Europe and Northern America

Of every 100 babies born in Europe and Northern America in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 73 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 24 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 77 · 16

2023
3 · 73 · 24

2050 · projected
1 · 70 · 29

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 10,353,254
Average age when women have a baby: 30.3 years; 28.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 10; 37 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Europe and Northern America by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	8,615	21,039	14,613	4,202	970	888
15–19	1,092,038	1,638,228	986,944	311,881	117,376	112,751
20–24	4,902,651	5,165,842	2,853,046	1,448,185	871,529	865,725
25–29	4,986,574	4,262,141	3,401,568	2,736,500	2,632,297	2,544,231
30–34	2,648,754	1,778,442	2,830,903	3,373,412	3,734,226	3,326,202
35–39	1,852,147	860,640	1,260,927	1,977,206	2,290,303	1,923,112
40–44	685,950	217,676	236,411	462,949	578,563	484,665
45–49	49,384	20,239	10,823	38,286	54,736	51,562
50–54	993	1,896	635	633	638	620
All babies	16,227,106	13,966,143	11,595,870	10,353,254	10,280,638	9,309,756

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.