Overview

Together with the green and digital transitions, demographic change is the third transformation shaping the future of Europe. A good understanding of how demographic change and the local, regional and national realities interact is key to tailor EU policies to the changing conditions on the ground.

Demographic knowledge is cross-cutting: demographic drivers and implications of territorial disparities across EU regions provide unique and detailed insights to tackle societal challenges and to even better understand political attitudes. Demographic insights will help inform the development and implementation of policies that are closer to citizens’ needs.

The Atlas of Demography is a new interactive knowledge management tool that enables policy-makers and citizens to observe, monitor and anticipate demographic challenges. It aims at informing several policy areas  - such as health, labour, education, access to services and amenities, territorial and cohesion policies, to name a few - with timely, robust, comparable demographic data and knowledge at the finest level of geographical detail (down to the level of a single municipality).

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Key features of the Atlas

High-resolution geographic coverage: a quick access to a comprehensive body of demographic data and knowledge featuring a strong territorial and forward-looking approach at the EU, national, regional and local level. The Atlas contains official statistics and projections from Eurostat and new data at high spatial resolution produced by the JRC.

Thematic sections: the Atlas will contain thematic stories linking demographic trends to specific policy contexts.

The Atlas is a living tool, it will evolve in the future, incorporating new indicators and analyses and will extend its scope from EU boundaries to global coverage. 

Factsheet and media

Reference Reports

PUBLICATION | 11 FEBRUARY 2021

The Demographic Landscape of EU Territories: Challenges and Opportunities in Diversely Ageing Regions

This report aims at detailing the territorial diversities of ageing across the EU, understanding the main drivers behind such differences and explore their relations with data on access to services and amenities, regional economic performance, political attitudes and behaviours.

PUBLICATION | 25 FEBRUARY 2021

Healthcare and long-term care workforce: demographic challenges and potential contribution of migration and digital technology

In the EU, the right to timely access the ‘affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality’ and the right to ‘affordable long-term services of good quality’ are enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights (C(2017) 2600 final). The backbone of health and long-term care (LTC) systems’ capacity to ensure that EU citizens can exercise these rights is its workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has put the resilience of national health and LTC systems to the test...

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Project timeline

AoD 2.0

Content of the tool in this release:

• data on the three components of demography – mortality, fertility and migration – for the 27 EU Member States and their regions,
• population projections for the EU Member States up to 2050, and
• three new thematic stories on the demographic impact of COVID-19 on EU territories, loneliness and support for governments. 

AoD 1.0

Content of the tool in this release:

• Geographic dimension: European Union's population structure at different geographic scales, from an EU overview to national, regional and local levels
• Eight stories build on the report 'Demographic Landscape of EU Territories: Challenges and Opportunities in Diversely Ageing Regions'

Sources:

• Eurostat
• Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography
• Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies
• Joint Research Centre

Launch event:

Watch the video recording of the event

Key Speakers:

• Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
• Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
• Committee of the Regions President Apostolos Tzitzikostas
• Portuguese Minister of State for the Presidency Mariana Vieira da Silva
• Stephen Quest, JRC Director-General