The five largest countries in Europe. Compare with the N. American countries.

All the European countries are either growing very slowly or actually already reducing their populations. The UK will continue to grow slowly for about two decades while France, which is currently growing slightly faster, is expected to start decreasing earlier. Italy has already begun to reduce in size as has Germany.

See also the age Profiles of these countries

Compare with populations of West, East, Central, South, Scandinavia, Baltic, Balkans.