Population:
491,582,852 (July 2009 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.44% (male 38,975,981/female 36,925,704)
15-64 years: 67.22% (male 166,277,341/female 164,183,829)
65 years and over: 17.34% (male 35,372,684/female 49,847,313) (2009 est.)

Median age:
note - see individual country entries of member states (2009 est.)

Population growth rate:
0.108 % (2009 est.)

Birth rate:
9.9 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Death rate:
10.28 deaths/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Net migration rate:
1.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.68 male(s)/female
total population: 0.92 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.72 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.38 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.67 years
male: 75.54 years
female: 81.97 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate:
1.51 children born/woman (2009 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
note - see individual country entries of member states

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
note - see individual country entries of member states

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
note - see individual country entries of member states

Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish

Languages:
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
note: only official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - over 19% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken language - about 49% of the EU population is conversant with it (2007)