Recent demographic developments in Europe 2005 (2006)

Recent demographic developments in Europe is an annual Council of Europe publication presenting the latest available information on population developments in 47 European states: the size of the population and its rate of increase, rates of migration, marriage and divorce, fertility and mortality, and the size of the foreign population. It is prepared by the European Population Committee, which is the Council of Europe's intergovernmental body responsible for demographic information and analysis, in co-operation with national statistics offices.The report contains an introduction with an executive summary and a Europe-wide comparative review. The accompanying intercative CD-Rom provides a short national report for each country with tables presenting the latest developments in the main demographic indicators, and a pyramid describing the age structure of the population in each of the 47 European countries covered.The previous reports are available at the following Internet address: http://www.coe.int/population/