Central and Eastern Europe Soviet Union; the independent states in former Yugoslavia (which were not considered part of the Eastern bloc); and the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (which chose not to join the CIS with the other 12 former republics of the USSR). The CEE countries are further subdivided by their accession status to the European Union (EU): the eight first-wave accession countries that joined the EU on 1 May 2004 (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia), the two second-wave accession countries that joined on 1 January 2007 (Romania and Bulgaria) and the third-wave accession country that
Demographics of the European Union population (2008) Death rate: 9.7 deaths/1,000 population (2008) Net migration rate: 3.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008) Marriage rate: 4.9 marriages/1,000 population (2007) Divorce rate: 2.0 divorces/1,000 population (2005) Sex ratio: (2006 est.) Infant mortality rate: (2005) Life expectancy: (2005) Total fertility rate: 1.59 children born/woman 2009 Live Births outside marriage: 40% of total live births in 2012 The demographics of the member states of the European Union: Demographics of the European Union The demographics of the European Union show a highly populated, culturally diverse union of 28 member states. As of 1 January 2018, the population of the EU is about