Re: Euro.

[Richard Kettlewell <rjk+nnews@sfere.greenend.org.uk>]

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> 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.

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