• Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Then there is a lot of varying census data. When I searched, the site said 780 million. I wonder if some sites still include the UK and others are maybe restricting the definition to the Schengen area.

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      5 months ago

      It’s because some people are using Europe in its proper continental usage, and some people using it really mean the EU. In this thread we’re discussing the EU because it’s a comparable entity to the US as covered in a previous reply.

      FYI the UK is a shade under 70m population the last time I checked - nowhere near enough to add 300m to Europe’s population.

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        5 months ago

        Correct but I also know the Schengen area doesn’t include all European countries too. So my guess was that combined with the UK might be the missing 300M

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      5 months ago

      Any count of Europe’s population that is over 700 million is including Russia, which is 140~150 million that shouldn’t be included when trying to answer the question about who has contributed more per capita to fighting Russia.

      If someone wants to give an explicit list of the countries that should be counted for populations regarding the question of “who has given more to help the war in Ukraine, the US or Europe?”, we can get to the bottom of this real quick.

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        5 months ago

        I mean, he’s right in that the population of EU seems to have two very different numbers. If you Google it, the first two results agree on over 700 million and it isn’t until the third result that you get 400 millon. Your argument literally goes either way depending on the definition of “Europe”.

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          5 months ago

          We’re talking about EU here. Europe is a continent and so if people are using that in its proper usage it will encompass a lot more people - hence the discrepancy.

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          There’s no definition of Europe at all in play here. It’s the EU. A specific subset of countries, which is not the same as Europe. So what I wrote only goes one way. I’m not quite sure it’s an argument, really. I presented the facts, and said that something with a maximum difference of 35% is very comparable. The first result I got through Google was the numbers I have given, which are also the official numbers from the European Union itself. That should be a lot more correct than other numbers you could find.

          If you want to google it, make sure you use “EU population”, not “Europe population”. Or you can look at that link I gave, which gives data not just for the EU, but a lot of other European countries as well.