Biggest changes in the latest figures
For every measure updated in the last 30 days: the three countries with the largest rise and the three with the largest fall between the same two consecutive periods, the latest period most countries share and the one before it. Countries with older or longer intervals are left out. Percentages are compared in percentage points, rates per population and index values as differences in their own unit, other measures in percent.
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Government spending on social protection
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 28 countries with values for both periods. 2 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
Government spending on defence
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 23 countries with values for both periods. 7 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Severe material and social deprivation
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 28 countries with values for both periods. 8 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Luxembourg: +1.1 percentage pointsb (Break in time series) 2.3% → 3.4%
- Greece: +0.9 percentage points 14.0% → 14.9%
- Sweden: +0.9 percentage points 3.0% → 3.9%
Average household size
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 7 countries with values for both periods. 29 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Practising nurses
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 28 countries with values for both periods. 5 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Malta: +51 746 per 100,000 people → 797 per 100,000 people
- Liechtenstein: +37 700 per 100,000 people → 737 per 100,000 people
- Iceland: +36 996 per 100,000 people → 1,032 per 100,000 people
Healthy life years at birth
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 27 countries with values for both periods. 4 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Denmark: +10.8%b (Break in time series) 56.3 years → 62.4 years
- Spain: +10.5%b (Break in time series) 62.1 years → 68.6 years
- Romania: +9.8%b (Break in time series) 59.2 years → 65.0 years
Life expectancy at age 65
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 33 countries with values for both periods. 11 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Georgia: +10.1%b (Break in time series) 14.8 years → 16.3 years
- Moldova: +4.2% 14.4 years → 15.0 years
- Latvia: +2.9% 17.3 years → 17.8 years
Largest falls
- Liechtenstein: −4.0% 22.4 years → 21.5 years
- Iceland: −1.0% 20.8 years → 20.6 years
- Serbia: −0.6%b (Break in time series) 16.3 years → 16.2 years
Natural population change
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 36 countries with values for both periods. 13 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
Largest falls
- Liechtenstein: −1.0 1.0 per 1,000 people → 0.0 per 1,000 people
- Azerbaijan: −0.8 4.3 per 1,000 people → 3.5 per 1,000 people
- Slovakia: −0.7 -1.4 per 1,000 people → -2.1 per 1,000 people
Interest rate on new loans to businesses
Updated 9 November 2026 · ECBAugust 2026 to September 2026, 16 countries with values for both periods. 5 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Population on 1 January
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 39 countries with values for both periods. 10 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Liechtenstein: +2.2% 40,015 people → 40,886 people
- Malta: +1.9% 563,443 people → 574,250 people
- Cyprus: +1.7% 966,365 people → 982,966 people
Crude birth rate (Eurostat)
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 39 countries with values for both periods. 10 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: +0.5 7.2 per 1,000 people → 7.7 per 1,000 people
- Monaco: +0.5 5.3 per 1,000 people → 5.8 per 1,000 people
- Denmark: +0.4 9.5 per 1,000 people → 9.9 per 1,000 people
Largest falls
- Georgia: −0.8 10.7 per 1,000 people → 9.9 per 1,000 people
- Slovakia: −0.7 8.5 per 1,000 people → 7.8 per 1,000 people
- Liechtenstein: −0.7 8.4 per 1,000 people → 7.7 per 1,000 people
Crude death rate (Eurostat)
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 28 countries with values for both periods. 21 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: +0.5 10.4 per 1,000 people → 10.9 per 1,000 people
- Liechtenstein: +0.2 7.5 per 1,000 people → 7.7 per 1,000 people
- Denmark: +0.2 9.5 per 1,000 people → 9.7 per 1,000 people
Total fertility rate
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 35 countries with values for both periods. 11 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
Share of population aged 65 and over (Eurostat)
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 38 countries with values for both periods. 10 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Azerbaijan: +0.8 percentage points 9.1% → 9.9%
- Moldova: +0.7 percentage points 17.5% → 18.2%
- Cyprus: +0.6 percentage points 17.7% → 18.3%
Largest falls
None in this update.
Median age of the population
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 37 countries with values for both periods. 11 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Azerbaijan: +1.7% 34.5 years → 35.1 years
- Moldova: +1.2% 40.8 years → 41.3 years
- Türkiye: +1.2% 34.0 years → 34.4 years
Largest falls
None in this update.
Old-age dependency ratio
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2024 to 2025, 39 countries with values for both periods. 9 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Azerbaijan: +8.4% 13.1 per 100 working-age people → 14.2 per 100 working-age people
- Moldova: +5.4% 27.7 per 100 working-age people → 29.2 per 100 working-age people
- Montenegro: +3.5% 25.7 per 100 working-age people → 26.6 per 100 working-age people
Largest falls
None in this update.
Infant mortality rate (Eurostat)
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 33 countries with values for both periods. 15 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Malta: +1.4 3.6 per 1,000 live births → 5.0 per 1,000 live births
- Luxembourg: +1.0 4.3 per 1,000 live births → 5.3 per 1,000 live births
- Romania: +1.0 5.6 per 1,000 live births → 6.6 per 1,000 live births
Largest falls
- Liechtenstein: −5.5 5.5 per 1,000 live births → 0.0 per 1,000 live births
- Cyprus: −1.5 4.5 per 1,000 live births → 3.0 per 1,000 live births
- Latvia: −1.1 2.6 per 1,000 live births → 1.5 per 1,000 live births
Immigration
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 32 countries with values for both periods. 3 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
- Liechtenstein: +81.6% 716 immigrants → 1,300 immigrants
- Sweden: +22.9% 94,514 immigrants → 116,197 immigrants
- Slovakia: +15.2% 5,923 immigrants → 6,824 immigrants
Emigration
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 32 countries with values for both periods. 3 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
Largest rises
Acquisitions of citizenship
Updated 9 November 2026 · Eurostat2023 to 2024, 32 countries with values for both periods. 5 other countries have older figures or a longer interval and are left out.
b: the source marks a break in the series at the latest value, so part of the change may come from a change in method.