Share of European Union member states in total EU population 2022

As of 2022, Germany was the largest country in the European Union in terms of population. The central European country comprised almost one-fifth of the total population of the EU in that year, with France in second place with 15.19 percent, and Italy in third at 13.21 percent. While there are 27 member states of the European Union in total, approximately two-thirds of the population of the bloc is made up by the seven largest countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, and the Netherlands. Of the remaining 20 member states, no country makes up more than 3 percent of the EU's total population, with the smallest country, Malta, comprising just 0.12 percent of the total.

截至2022年，德国在欧洲联盟国家中人口数量位居首位。该位于中欧的联邦共和国在那一年占据了欧盟总人口近五分之一的比例，位居第二的法国占比15.19%，意大利则以13.21%的比重位列第三。尽管欧洲联盟共有27个成员国，但该联盟总人口的约三分之二由德国、法国、意大利、西班牙、波兰、罗马尼亚和荷兰这七个大国构成。在剩余的20个成员国中，没有任何一个国家的人口占比超过欧盟总人口的3%，其中人口最少的国家马耳他仅占0.12%。