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Most people in Europe would not qualify. The standard getting around the city paces are not fast enough for the threshold defined in this paper.

It's right there in the comment above, 100 steps/minutes. Just over one and a half steps a second. It's not ambling around window shopping, but that's not really that brisk at all if you're going somewhere.

Nothing prevents somebody in Europe to stay at home without significant exercising all day, especially now as a lot of jobs are work-from-home.

I live in an area in France where the car reigns, and if I don’t do conscious exercise every day, I can end up with fewer than 1000 steps a day: Bed to kitchen, to the car, to meetings, then back home.

Basically the "averages" are so paheticly sedentary and unhealthy that getting any physical activity puts you in the outlier.