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In EU member-states there are more elderly people, than children, informed European statistical agency Eurostat.

According to the publish by the agency data, in structure of the EU population children under 14 make only 16,2 %, and elderly people in the age of 65 years and more - 16,6 %.

For the last 25 years total number of young people in the EU member-states has reduced by 23 million (21 %, 10 % from which - only for during last decade).

According to the Eurostat information, the most “old” population among the EU countries has Italy where each fifth resident is more than 65 years old, and the part of young people makes only 14,2 %.

Ireland has the youngest population, its part there makes 20,7 %. Despite these parameters, an aggregate number of the population in the EU, which is almost 500 million people today, for the last 27 years has increased by 8,2 %.

Eurostat explains it, first of all, by an increase in population due to inflow of immigrants. Only the last year natives of the third countries have provided 75 % of demographic growth in the EU.