!!!European Union: People & Society
||Population|515,052,778 (July 2016 est.)
||Languages|Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish \\ ''__note__'': only the 24 official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - about 16% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken foreign language - about 38% of the EU population is conversant with it (2012) \\ 
||Religions|Roman Catholic 48%, Protestant 12%, Orthodox 8%, other Christian 4%, Muslim 2%, other 1% (includes Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu), atheist 7%, non-believer/agnostic 16%, unspecified 2% (2012 est.)
||Age structure|''0-14 years'': 15.5% (male 40,853,366/female 38,783,889) \\ ''15-24 years'': 10.9% (male 28,680,885/female 27,396,922) \\ ''25-54 years'': 41.8% (male 108,312,731/female 106,407,509) \\ ''55-64 years'': 12.9% (male 32,287,068/female 34,128,099) \\ ''65 years and over'': 19.1% (male 42,074,448/female 56,127,861) (2016 est.) \\ 
||Median age|''total'': 42.7 years \\ ''male'': 41.3 years \\ ''female'': 44.1 years (2016 est.) \\ 
||Population growth rate|0.23% (2016 est.)
||Birth rate|10.1 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Death rate|10.2 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Net migration rate|2.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
||Population distribution|population distribution varies considerably from country to country, but tends to follow a pattern of coastal and river settlement, with urban agglomerations forming large hubs facilitating large scale housing, industry, and commerce
||Sex ratio|''at birth'': 1.06 male(s)/female \\ ''0-14 years'': 1.05 male(s)/female \\ ''15-24 years'': 1.05 male(s)/female \\ ''25-54 years'': 1.02 male(s)/female \\ ''55-64 years'': 0.95 male(s)/female \\ ''65 years and over'': 0.75 male(s)/female \\ ''total population'': 0.96 male(s)/female (2016 est.) \\ 
||Infant mortality rate|''total'': 4 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''male'': 4.4 deaths/1,000 live births \\ ''female'': 3.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) \\ 
||Life expectancy at birth|''total population'': 80.2 years \\ ''male'': 77.4 years \\ ''female'': 83.2 years (2016 est.) \\ 
||Total fertility rate|1.61 children born/woman (2016 est.)
||Hospital bed density|5.4 beds/1,000 population (2011)
||HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate|note - see individual entries of member states
||HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS|note - see individual entries of member states
||HIV/AIDS - deaths|note - see individual entries of member states