Re: Euro.
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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