What explains population change by region in Europe? [OC]

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NaytaData on July 5th, 2018 at 08:13 UTC »

Source: Eurostat

Tools: R & QGIS

Like the title says, this map shows population change by regions in Europe and the main explanatory reason behind said change. For example, if a region's population grows by 10 000 inhabitants with a natural change (births - deaths) of 3 000 and a net migration (people moving in - people moving out) of 7 000, the main explanatory factor would be migration.

EDIT :

Well, it looks like the comment section got locked thanks to some pretty cancerous comments. Can't say that I blame the mods. Anyway, just to make things clear: migration != immigration. In fact, many if not most regions growing mostly due to migration are doing so because of citizens moving in from other regions in the same country. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since for example urbanization is still going strong in many countries.

Feralica on July 5th, 2018 at 11:00 UTC »

Looking at Finland reminded me of this. What do young people do in Helsinki

cteno4 on July 5th, 2018 at 11:04 UTC »

Poland is such a hodgepodge. It looks like it has almost equal amounts of each color. I wonder if there's any explanation for that.