Coastal regions: people living along the coastline, integration of NUTS 2010 and latest population grid - Issue number 30/2013 - Products Statistics in Focus

This article presents recent statistics on the population of the coastal regions of the European Union (EU). Among the 1 294 NUTS 3 regions included in the NUTS 2010 classification, 439 were defined as coastal regions. In 2011, 40.8 % of the EU-27 population lived in coastal regions which covered 40.0 % of EU-27 territory. The geo-spatial data analysis below highlights the disparities in population distribution patterns along the coastline.