Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Thomas Wesley Hinton wrote:
>> Nope, the Euro will not be used by most of Europe. England, Sweden >> and Denmark is not a part of the Euro zone, and neither is the rest >> of europe. Whether you count by citizens or countries, you'll find >> that most of Europe is _not_ a part of the euro zone. > > Out of curiosity, do you have numbers to backup your statement that > even if yo ucount by citizins most Europeans are not part of the > euro zone? Country Population Austria 8,150,835 Belgium 10,258,762 Finland 5,175,783 France 59,551,227 Germany 83,029,536 Greece 10,623,835 Ireland 3,840,838 Italy 57,679,825 Luxembourg 442,972 Netherlands 15,981,472 Portugal 10,066,253 Spain 40,037,995 Eurozone total 304,839,333 Denmark 5,352,815 Sweden 8,875,053 UK 59,647,790 Non-Euro EU total 73,875,658 Albania 3,510,484 Belarus 10,350,194 Bosnia 3,922,205 Croatia 4,334,142 Czech Rep. 10,264,212 Estonia 1,423,316 Hungary 10,106,017 Latvia 2,385,231 Lithuania 3,610,535 Macedonia 2,046,209 Moldova 4,431,570 Norway 4,503,440 Poland 38,633,912 Romania 22,364,022 Russia 145,470,197 Slovakia 5,414,937 Slovenia 1,930,132 Ukraine 48,760,474 Yugoslavia 10,677,290 Non-EU total 334,138,519 Non-Euro total 408,014,177 Population figures from http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ I'm not sure how much of Russia to include in the above, though I believe most of the population inhabits the west of the country. I've left Turkey out even though a fragment of it is in Europe. Finally, how do we define "most"? >50% seems too low to me - >75% or >90% would seem more plausible. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
