The European Union's population is set to reach the 500 million mark in 2009, new figures from Eurostat, the bloc's statistics agency, showed on Wednesday (3 August).
On 1 January 2009 the population was estimated to stand at 499.8 million, compared with 497.7 million on 1 January 2008. The EU population has been on the rise since 2004 due to an increase in birth rates combined with annual immigration of between 1.5 and 2 million people.
Euobserver
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