Re:Think Europe 2010 What You May Not Have Known About Our Incredible Continent

The largest migration in Europes history took place 1300 years ago

One in three Europeans speaks at least two foreign languages

Luxembourg has one bank per 2000 inhabitants

Europes total population in 2008 was estimated at 739,450,000

The largest European car producer per capita is Slovakia

The worlds biggest and smallest countries Russia and the Vatican are both in Europe

Over the past four decades, life expectancy in Europe has risen by eight years

European post operators have been issuing a common postage stamp together since 1956.

Two in three Portuguese science graduates are women.

At least on statistic terms, Cypriots marry most. Slovenes the least.

The employment growth rate in Europes knowledge industry is double that of the developed world average.

More than half of Austrian and Swedish energy comes from renewable sources.

The number of tourists that visit San Marino is 20 times the number of residents.

The largest non-sporting television event in the world is the Eurovision Song Contest which has been going on for more than 50 years with songs from 51 countries

The country that won the most Olympic medals per capita is Finland.

At least one in a million people from Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, the UK, Austria and Ireland have been Nobel prize winners.

There are at least eight ways to locate the centre of Europe, including one which places it in Norway!

The worlds least polluted water is found in Iceland and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Europe has been catching up and reducing the innovation gap to Japan and the USA. However, the pace of catching up has stagnated since 2005.

The Irish alphabet has 18 letters abcdefghilmnoprstu whereas the Albanian has 36 abcçddheëfggjhijklllmnnjopqrrrsshtthuvxxhyzzh

The first European country to cross the 90% internet penetration threshold is the Netherlands.

and what about 2049?

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