These are the countries with the most children in Europe

In Europe, Do you think there are many or few children? Are there more than a few years ago, or has their proportion decreased in the last decade? These questions have been answered by a recent study prepared by the European Union, which has observed how the percentage of European children has stagnated in recent years, and which countries have the smallest among their population.

The study, which analyzes the population of children under 15 years of age In all the countries of the European Union, it has used Eurostat data to carry out its inquiries, finding that the children of the European Union only represent an average of 15.6 percent of the global population.

Few children in the European Union

European countries with more children | Create infographics

In 2014, the European Union had 10 million fewer children than in 1994, according to Eurostat data on families, which means that the percentage of children under 15 in the member countries has also gone down. Specific, Ireland is the country of the European Union that has the highest percentage of children under 15 among its population: 22 percent.

Ireland is followed by France (18.6 percent of its population is under 15), the United Kingdom (17.6 percent), Denmark (17.2 percent), Sweden (17.1 percent) and Belgium (17 percent)
On the opposite side are Germany, as the country with the lowest percentage of children, counting only 13.1 percent of its population, Bulgaria (13.7 percent) and Italy (13.9 percent).

Spain, on the other hand, is below the European average of 15.6 percent but close to it: 15.2 percent of Spaniards are under 15 years old.

This means that Spain has lost children in recent years. Specifically, and according to the same data, in 1994 in our country there were 6.8 million children, that is, 17.5 percent of the population. However, although the number has increased a little to seven million in 2014, the percentage has fallen: only 15.2 percent of Spaniards are under 15 years old.

With these numbers, the European Union dares to anticipate what the young population will be like in the coming years, and They believe that in Spain we will continue to lose children: in 2050 they calculate that there will be only six million children under 15 years of age, which will represent 13.2 percent of our population.

Angela R. Bonachera