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I was curious so here are some population figures (from wikipedia)

    Eurozone: 332,839,084

    EU: 503,492,041

    Europe: 739,165,030

So 45% of Europeans (66% of EU citizens) are in the Eurozone.

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Here's a great lil' venn diagram of all the European bodies

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Supranati...

One of my bugbears, but to be completely accurate this is an Euler Diagram, not a Venn Diagram. Technically, a Venn Diagram has to have all possible intersections represented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram

http://blog.stevemould.com/venn-vs-euler-diagrams/

For those who don't know, the Eurozone is basically those 17 EU member states who use the Euro as their currency. The remaining 10 members of the EU use their own national currency.

Fun fact: There are countries outside the EU that use the Euro, but Eurozone (or Euro area) only includes EU.

(FTR: Kosovo and Montenegro use the Euro, aswell as some microstates like Monaco and Vatican City)

Can't stress enough that the 740 million figures includes Russia and Kazakhstan in the bunch. Two countries that are more Asian than they are European.

That is based on the European populations of those countries - not their entire populations!!

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