There are now more than one million 'Erasmus+ babies' born to couples who met on the programme.
66% confidence
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No updated official count of 'Erasmus babies' exists: the one-million figure is an extrapolation from the 2014 Erasmus Impact Study and has been repeated in EU communication ever since, not a statistic updated with each new participant cohort.
The estimate covers Erasmus/Erasmus+ participants since 1987 and is derived from self-reported survey data on partners met abroad, so it carries a wide margin of uncertainty.
The most recent search results (2025) simply restate the 2014-based estimate rather than providing a new measurement; the speaker presents an old extrapolation as a current headcount.
Erasmus+ participation figures for 2024 (about 1.5 million mobilities, European Commission report of 14 November 2025) show continued growth, which makes a figure well above one million plausible, but they do not measure births to Erasmus couples.
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PrimaryEurydice / European Education and Culture Executive Agency (European Commission)"This year, a study on the impact of the Erasmus mobility programme revealed that there are now over one million Erasmus babies roaming Europe and the world – meaning offspring from parents who have met while one or both were on an Erasmus exchange in another country."
TertiaryYouth Works Hub (blog restating European Commission estimate)"On this basis, the Commission estimated around one million children may have been born to 'Erasmus couples' since 1987." / "An estimated 1,000,000 children have been born to couples who met thanks to Erasmus mobility."