Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This dataset contains the demographic balance at state level (NUTS1)</SPAN><SPAN> from 2012-2020 </SPAN><SPAN>which is collected yearly by the national statistical agencies in EU. Compiling agency: Eurostat, The Statistical Office of the European Union</SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN><SPAN>This dataset represents the </SPAN><SPAN>state</SPAN><SPAN>level (NUTS </SPAN><SPAN>1</SPAN><SPAN>). The NUTS classification has been officially established through Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/1755. A non-official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries, candidate countries and potential candidates based on a bilateral agreement between Eurostat and the respective statistical agencies. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview. This dataset has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 2020 (Eurogeographics, Reference Date 31.12.2018) and geographic information from TurkStat for Turkey. The public dataset is available under the Download link indicated below. Available scales are 1:1.000.000, 3Milion, 10M, 20M, 60M. The full dataset is available via the GISCO Reference Database and the EC restricted download link under GISCO.NUTS_2021. Here six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are available. Coverage is the economic territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as of 01/02/2020. For more information on the NUTS classification see: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/history</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>