"Population of EU Member States Has Soared by a Quarter to 507 Million..."

From The Daily Mail:
... since 1960"
FFS.
Stick it in Excel
=(507/407)^(1/53)-1
= 0.42% annual growth.
Jeez.
By world standards, that is actually stagnating at best.
Since 1960, the world population has gone up from 3 billion to 7 billion, so in 1960 EU member states were 14% of the world population and now they are only 7%. Which is as Henry George and great minds before and since have predicted/observed; once a country has reached a certain level of prosperity, fecundity drops off quite markedly. In really rich countries (Germany, Japan), it goes negative, and the true picture is probably masked by net immigration.