Worldwide
population in millions 1995

Africa
732
North America
295
Latin America
486
Asia
3437
Oceania
29
Europe
890
NORTHERN EUROPE
Denmark
5.2
Estonia
1.5
Finland
5.1
Iceland
0.3
Ireland
3.6
Latvia
2.5
Lithuania
3.7
Norway
4.4
Sweden
8.8
United Kingdom
58.8
WESTERN EUROPE
Austria
8.1
Belgium
10.2
France
58.4
Germany
81.7
Liechtenstein
0.03
Luxembourg
0.4
Netherlands
15.5
Switzerland
7.1
EASTERNEUROPE
Belarus
10.3
Bulgaria
8.4
Czech Republic
10.3
Hungary
10.2
Moldavia
4.3
Poland
38.6
Romania
22.6
Russia
147.7
Slovakia
5.4
Ukraine
51.1
SOUTHERN EUROPE
Albania
3.3
Bosnia-Herzegovina
3.6
Croatia
4.4
Greece
10.5
Italy
57.3
Macedonia
2.1
Malta
0.4
Portugal
9.9
San Marina
0.03
Slovenia
2.0
Spain
39.3
Serbia, Montenegro
10.2
Turkey
63.9

The population in the European Union, the EC, comprises 354 million, or 45 per cent of the European total. It is unfair to many millions to speak of the EU as "Europe."

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