Migration pushes EU population back to growth in 2022

A view shows a welcome sign at the accommodation centre for refugees from Ukraine at the former Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2023. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi

(Reuters) - The European Union's population rose for the first time in three years in 2022, boosted by migration into the bloc even as more people died than were born, the EU's statistics office Eurostat said on Tuesday.

The political alliance's population rose from 446.7 million on Jan. 1, 2022 to 448.4 million people a year later. The figure had declined for two consecutive years before this due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.