Greece’s population dropped from 11.062 million on January 1, 2013 to 10.992 million on January 1, 2014 according to a Eurostat report unveiled on Thursday.

According to the European statistics agency’s figures, there were 94,100 births in Greece in that period and 112,100 deaths leading to a net population reduction of 17,900.

At the same time, immigration into Greece was reduced by 52,000.
Greece, Italy and Germany were the three EU28 countries with the lowest percentage of births.

The EU population rose to 507.4 million on January 1, 2014 from 505.6 million on January 1, 2013, with 5.075 million births.