re:think europe 2010 what you may not have known about our incredible continent
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Re:Think Europe 2010What You May Not Have Known About Our Incredible Continent
The largest migration in Europe’s history
took place 1300 years ago
One in three Europeans
speaks at least two foreign languages
Luxembourg has one bank
per 2000 inhabitants
Europe’s total population in 2008 was estimated at
739,450,000
The largest European car producer per capita
is Slovakia
The world’s biggest and smallest countries
Russia and the Vaticanare 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 Europe’s 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 Irelandhave been Nobel prize winners.
There are at least eight ways to locate the centre of Europe, including one
which places it in Norway!
The world’s 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
abcdefghilmnoprstuwhereas 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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