People aged 100 or over in the EU countries
Topic: Population and health
In France, the number of people aged 100 or over is 50.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, against 5.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in Croatia.
On 1 January 2025, the number of people aged 100 or over in the EU was 29.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. Each country's count is set against its population of the same day.
- Figures for:
- 2025.
- Covers:
- one day.
- Population on:
- 1 January 2025.
- New data:
- once a year.
- Dataset updated:
- 12 November 2026.
Published 13 November 2026
The ranking
On 1 January 2025, the number of people aged 100 or over ranged from 5.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in Croatia to 50.8 per 100,000 inhabitants in France.
On 1 January 2025, the most people of this age lived in France (34,979), Italy (22,652), Germany (17,901) and Spain (17,038). In Croatia, 218 people did.
Number of people aged 100 or over, per 100,000 inhabitants
2025Women and men
People aged 100 or over in the EU by sex, %
2025About the data
The population on 1 January, by age and sex. Eurostat's recommended definition is the usually resident population. The story divides the number of people in the open-ended age class by the population on 1 January of the same year and shows it per 100,000 inhabitants.
Eurostat: “The recommended definition is the "usually resident population" which represents the number of inhabitants of a given area on 1 January of the year in question (or on 31 December of the previous year).” (source)
Population figures reported by the Member States, as the usually resident population or as estimates based on the latest census or on population registers.
How to read these numbers
How it is measured
Countries count different populations. Finland reports the legally resident population. Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden, and in part Czechia, Germany and Spain, report the registered population, and the others the usually resident population. Figures may come from the latest census adjusted for later change or from population registers.
Eurostat's open-ended age class holds everyone older than the last single age a country reports. For 2025 every EU country reports the age of 99, so the class is people aged 100 or over.
The number of people aged 100 or over can change sharply from one year to the next without a flag. Hungary's fell sharply between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023, and Romania's between 2021 and 2022. Eurostat says that the population figures from 2021 on take the results of the 2021–2022 censuses into account.
While countries' revisions are being processed, the EU figure may not exactly match the sum of the countries.
France's figures cover the whole country, with its overseas departments. Mayotte has been included since 2014. Cyprus's figures cover only the areas controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus.
Since 2016, Estonia has determined its usually resident population with a residency index, from signs of life in several registers. Its population figures include migration from 2012 on, and did not before.
Provisional figures
A provisional value (flag p) may still be revised. This concerns France (2025), Poland (2025) and the EU (2025).
Flag p also concerns the population of France (2025) and the EU (2025).
Estimates
A value with flag e is an estimate, not measured or counted in full. This concerns Poland (2025), Romania (2025) and the EU (2025).
Flag e also concerns the population of Romania (2025) and the EU (2025).
Sources and data
Eurostat, Population on 1 January by age and sex (demo_pjan). Data updated 12 November 2026, retrieved 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Eurostat metadata · Eurostat methodology
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