EU POPULATION AT 500 MILLION.

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On 1 January 2010, the 27 European Union member states crossed the threshold of 500 million inhabitants "for the first time," announced the French statistics institute INSEE, on 19 January. The three most densely populated countries are Germany (81.7 million inhabitants), France (64.7) and the United Kingdom (62). In the space of a decade, the populations of Ireland and Spain grew by more than 15%, while the German...