European Union statistics - wikipedia European Union statistics Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat ( European statistics body ). Contents 1 Area and population 2 Economy 2.1 EU budget 3 Freedom and governance - related rankings 3.1 Freedom of the press 3.2 Economic freedom 3.3 Perception of corruption 3.4 Human development 3.5 Income equality 3.6 Ease of doing business 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Area and population EU population cartogram As of 1 January 2006, the population of the EU was about 493 million people. Many countries are expected to experience a decline in population over the coming decades, though this could be offset with new countries planning to join the EU within the next 20 years. The most populous member state is Germany, with an estimated 80.4 million people. France and Ireland have the highest birth - rates. The most densely populated country is the island of Malta, which is also the smallest, while the largest in area is France. The least densely populated country is Finland. Population figures in the table below are from 2006 or 2007 estimates. The highest and lowest figures in each column have been marked in bold. Member State Population in millions Population % of EU Area km Area % of EU Pop. density People / km European Union 494.8 100 % 4,422,773 100 % 112 Austria 8.3 1.7 % 83,858 1.9 % 99 Belgium 10.5 2.1 % 30,510 0.7 % 344 Bulgaria 7.7 1.6 % 110,912 2.5 % 70 Croatia 4.3 0.9 % 56,594 1.3 % 75.8 Cyprus 0.8 0.2 % 9,250 0.2 % 84 Czech Republic 10.3 2.1 % 78,866 1.8 % 131 Denmark 5.4 1.1 % 43,094 1.0 % 126 Estonia 1.3 0.3 % 45,226 1.0 % 29 Finland 5.3 1.1 % 337,030 7.6 % 16 France 65.03 13. % 643,548 14.6 % 111 Germany 80.4 16.6 % 357,021 8.1 % 225 Greece 11.1 2.2 % 131,940 3.0 % 84 Hungary 10.1 2.0 % 93,030 2.1 % 108 Ireland 4.6 0.9 % 70,280 1.6 % 60 Italy 58.8 11.9 % 301,320 6.8 % 195 Latvia 2.3 0.5 % 64,589 1.5 % 35 Lithuania 3.4 0.7 % 65,200 1.5 % 45 Luxembourg 0.5 0.1 % 2,586 0.1 % 181 Malta 0.4 0.1 % 316 0.0007 % 1,261 Netherlands 17 3.3 % 41,526 0.9 % 394 Poland 38.1 7.7 % 312,685 7.1 % 122 Portugal 10.6 2.1 % 92,931 2.1 % 114 Romania 21.6 4.4 % 238,391 5.4 % 91 Spain 44.7 9.0 % 504,782 11.4 % 87 Slovakia 5.4 1.1 % 48,845 1.1 % 111 Slovenia 2.0 0.4 % 20,253 0.5 % 99 Sweden 10 1.8 % 449,964 10.2 % 20 United Kingdom 64.7 12.3 % 244,820 5.5 % 246 Economy For statistics relating to economy, please see Economy of the European Union. EU budget The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to the EU budget, and receives funding back from the EU, depending on the relative wealth of the states, i.e. their ability to pay. The table below shows the contributions as a percentage of the total budget. This takes into account the special considerations given to the United Kingdom to reduce its contribution through a rebate. Expenditure in Luxembourg, Belgium and France include items for the EU administrative centres in each of those countries. Member State Total contribution in Euro Total contribution as % of total EU budget Total expenditure year 2006 in Euro Total expenditure as % of total EU budget Net contribution in Euro Net contribution in Euro per capita Total contribution in Euro per capita European Union 105,259,468,772 100.00 % 106,575,500,000 100.00 % - 1,316,031,228 - 3 213 Germany 22,218,438,941 21.11 % 12,242,400,000 11.49 % 9,976,038,941 124 276 France 17,303,107,859 16.44 % 13,496,200,000 12.66 % 3,806,907,859 59 266 Italy 14,359,479,157 13.64 % 10,922,300,000 10.25 % 3,437,179,157 58 244 United Kingdom 13,739,900,046 13.05 % 8,294,200,000 7.78 % 5,445,700,046 90 226 Spain 8,957,286,488 8.51 % 12,883,000,000 12.09 % - 3,925,713,512 - 88 200 Netherlands 5,552,933,781 5.28 % 2,190,400,000 2.06 % 3,362,533,781 198 327 Belgium 4,035,286,807 3.83 % 5,625,100,000 5.28 % - 1,589,813,193 - 151 384 Sweden 2,832,862,800 2.69 % 1,573,400,000 1.48 % 1,259,462,800 126 283 Austria 2,308,432,030 2.19 % 1,830,100,000 1.72 % 478,332,030 58 278 Denmark 2,130,860,212 2.02 % 1,501,900,000 1.41 % 628,960,212 116 395 Poland 2,099,087,114 1.99 % 5,305,600,000 4.98 % - 3,206,512,886 - 84 55 Greece 1,882,611,879 1.79 % 6,833,700,000 6.41 % - 4,951,088,121 - 446 170 Finland 1,544,832,284 1.47 % 1,280,400,000 1.20 % 264,432,284 50 291 Portugal 1,443,049,602 1.37 % 3,634,800,000 3.41 % - 2,191,750,398 - 207 136 Ireland 1,341,281,313 1.27 % 2,461,800,000 2.31 % - 1,120,518,687 - 244 292 Hungary 1,003,119,411 0.95 % 1,842,200,000 1.73 % - 839,080,589 - 83 99 Czech Republic 932,392,859 0.89 % 1,330,000,000 1.25 % - 397,607,141 - 39 91 Slovakia 393,148,777 0.37 % 696,200,000 0.65 % - 303,051,223 - 56 73 Slovenia 299,993,572 0.29 % 406,000,000 0.38 % - 106,006,428 - 53 150 Luxembourg 241,439,011 0.23 % 1,194,800,000 1.12 % - 953,360,989 - 1,907 483 Lithuania 221,997,405 0.21 % 799,800,000 0.75 % - 577,802,595 - 170 65 Cyprus 144,556,416 0.14 % 239,600,000 0.22 % - 95,043,584 - 119 181 Latvia 115,205,431 0.11 % 402,600,000 0.24 % - 287,394,569 - 125 50 Estonia 100,756,308 0.10 % 300,000,000 0.28 % - 199,243,692 - 142 72 Malta 57,409,269 0.05 % 157,000,000 0.14 % - 99,590,731 - 249 144 Bulgaria 360,600,000 0.34 % - 360,600,000 - 47 Romania 693,100,000 0.65 % - 693,100,000 - 32 Freedom and governance - related rankings There are many indices available on issues such as corruption, development, and freedom. Freedom of the press EU Rank Member State Global Rank Finland Netherlands Luxembourg Denmark 6 5 Sweden 10 6 Estonia 11 7 Austria 12 8 Ireland 15 9 Czech Republic 16 10 Germany 17 11 Belgium 21 12 Poland 22 13 Slovakia 23 14 Cyprus 24 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 15 Portugal 28 16 United Kingdom 29 17 Lithuania 33 18 Slovenia 35 19 Spain 36 20 France 37 21 Latvia 39 22 Romania 42 23 Malta 45 24 Hungary 56 25 Italy 57 26 Greece 84 27 Bulgaria 87 Reporters sans frontières conducts an annual survey on the freedom of the press and produces scores ( not shown here ) for each country. In 2013, Finland was proclaimed as having the freest press in the European Union, and indeed the world, with a score of 6.38. Bulgaria was ranked as having the least free press in the European Union, with a score of 28.58. ( 1 ) Economic freedom EU Rank Member State Global Rank Denmark 9 Ireland 11 Estonia 13 United Kingdom 14 5 Luxembourg 15 6 Finland 16 7 Netherlands 17 8 Sweden 18 9 Germany 19 10 Lithuania 22 11 Austria 25 12 Czech Republic 29 13 Belgium 40 14 Cyprus 41 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 15 Slovakia 42 16 Spain 46 17 Hungary 47 18 Malta 48 19 Latvia 55 20 Poland 57 21 Romania 59 22 Bulgaria 60 23 France 62 24 Portugal 67 25 Slovenia 76 26 Italy 83 27 Greece 117 An index of Economic Freedom is produced by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation. It uses 50 different variables to compile the survey, in areas such as trade policy and government intervention. A similar index produced by the World Economic Forum is its Global Competitiveness Index. Source : 2013 Index of Economic Freedom. Colour Codes Free Mostly Free Moderately Free Mostly Unfree Perception of corruption EU Rank Member State Global Rank Denmark = 1 Finland Sweden Netherlands 8 5 Germany 10 = Luxembourg = 10 = United Kingdom = 10 8 Belgium = 15 9 Austria 17 10 Ireland 19 11 Estonia 22 12 France 23 13 Portugal = 29 = Poland = 29 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 15 Slovenia = 31 16 Lithuania = 38 17 Spain = 41 18 Latvia 44 19 Cyprus = 47 = Czech Republic = 47 = Malta = 47 22 Slovakia 54 23 Croatia = 55 24 Hungary = 57 = Romania = 57 26 Italy = 60 27 Greece 69 28 Bulgaria = 75 Transparency International is an international NGO publishing an annual Global Corruption Report indicating the perception of corruption around the world. The rankings of the table refer to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 ( 2 ). Human development EU Rank Member State Global Rank Netherlands Germany 6 Denmark 10 Ireland 11 5 Sweden 12 6 United Kingdom 14 7 France 20 8 Austria = 21 = Belgium = 21 = Luxembourg = 21 11 Finland 24 12 Slovenia 25 13 Italy 26 14 Spain 27 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 15 Czech Republic 28 16 Greece 29 17 Cyprus 32 18 Estonia 33 19 Lithuania = 35 20 Poland = 35 21 Slovakia 37 22 Malta 39 23 Portugal 41 24 Hungary 43 25 Croatia 47 26 Latvia 48 27 Romania 54 28 Bulgaria 58 The Human Development Index is a measure produced by the United Nations which covers three aspects of human development : poverty ( GDP per capita ) education ( mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling ) health ( life expectancy ) The rankings of the table refer to the UNDP Human Development Report 2014 ( 2013 data ). The UN lists all EU member states except Romania and Bulgaria as countries with very high human development. Income equality EU Rank Member State Global Rank Denmark Sweden Czech Republic 5 Slovakia 6 5 Hungary 10 = Finland 10 7 Germany 14 8 Slovenia 15 9 Austria 18 10 Bulgaria 19 11 Netherlands 25 12 Romania 26 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 13 France 32 14 Belgium 33 15 Ireland 40 = Greece 40 17 Poland 44 18 Spain 47 19 Estonia 50 20 Lithuania 51 = Italy 51 = United Kingdom 51 23 Latvia 57 24 Portugal 59 Income inequality, measured by the gini coefficient is how evenly incomes are distributed through the population. Denmark has the least income inequality with a gini coefficient score of 24.4, whilst Portugal has the most income inequality with a score of 38.5. Malta, Luxembourg, and Cyprus have no statistics available, and so are not included in this table. These statistics have been compiled by the United Nations ( see ( 3 ) ) Ease of Doing business EU Rank Member State Global Rank Denmark United Kingdom 7 Sweden 9 Estonia 12 5 Finland 13 6 Latvia 14 7 Germany 17 8 Ireland 18 9 Austria 19 10 Lithuania 21 11 Poland 24 12 Portugal 25 13 Czech Republic 27 14 Netherlands 28 EU Rank Member State Global Rank 15 France 29 16 Slovenia 30 17 Spain 32 18 Slovakia 33 19 Romania 36 20 Bulgaria 39 21 Hungary 41 22 Belgium 42 23 Croatia 43 24 Cyprus 45 25 Italy 50 26 Luxembourg 59 27 Greece 61 28 Malta 76 The Ease of Doing Business Index is created by the World Bank and based on the study of laws and regulations, with the input and verification by more than 3,500 government officials, lawyers, business consultants, accountants and other professionals who routinely advise on or administer legal and regulatory requirements. The data in the table are from the 2017 report. See also European Union portal Enlargement of the European Union Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits Hispanics and Latins in Europe List of European Union member states by population Largest urban areas of the European Union and Larger Urban Zones Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics References Jump up ^ `` Total Population as of 01.01. 06 Archived 6 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine. '', EUROSTAT. Retrieved 12 November 2006. Jump up ^ `` The EU 's baby blues '', BBC News, 27 March 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006. Jump up ^ `` France claims EU fertility crown ``, BBC News, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007. Jump up ^ Figures for France include the four overseas departments ( French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion ) which are integral parts of the European Union, but do not include the overseas collectivities and territories, which are not part of the European Union. Figures for Metropolitan France proper are : population 63.6 million, area 551 695 km2, and population density 113 / km2. 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Question: what is the most densely populated western european country
Answer: Malta