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The European Union includes 11 post-communist countries(Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Thepopulation of this group of countries has fallen by 7% since1989, whereas that of the rest of the EU has risen by 13%.Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, these countries hadyounger populations than the rest of the EU, but they arenow ageing due to low fertility and mass emigration ofyoung people.

Population decline in the post-communist countries of the European Union