Talk:Demographics of Europe

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[edit] Too Big Overview?

I find the overview too long. Does anyone else agree? Computerjoe's talk 07:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it's long compared to the rest of the article, but I do not think that it is long by itself. Let's fill in the other sections, and we can fix the overview to match the rest of the article. (^'-')^ Covington 04:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
i agree with covington let's fill the rest first.Juan Scott 22:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Too long or not, I don't like the following sentence in the overview. "Furthermore, two European countries (currently The Netherlands and Switzerland) have allowed a limited form of voluntary euthanasia. It remains to be seen how much demographic impact this may have." Euthansia may mean that at any given point in time in aggregate terms there are slightly fewer old people, but the effect is never going to be particularly large, and as far as other demographics are concerned the implications are limited at best. It is not that the statement is wrong, it does indeed remain to be seen how much demographic impact euthanasia will have, but the effect is likely to remain so small that it doesn't deserve a mention in the overview. Any objections to deleting it? Wilston 01:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradictory statistics

In the lead, it says that Europe's population was in 2003 a little shy of 800 million. In the statistics below, it shows in 2000 and 2005, the population was basically the same (728 million). Now unless there was a remarkable spike for only a couple of years, which one is correct? Batmanand | Talk 14:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Let's go check where these stats are from; some sources estimates might be different from others'. (^'-')^ Covington 02:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Europe is in the First World. First World estimates do not differ by 10%. I am imagining they are different definitions of "Europe". Batmanand | Talk 07:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

There is also said that Serbia's population is 10,147,398 millions " Serbia[24] 88,361 10,147,398 114.8 Belgrade " and on the picture of Europe in the poulation section, Serbia's color is showing that it has between 5 and 10 millions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.167.123.9 (talk) 20:18, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

In the article Europe, they say that the continent's population is about 728 million, in 2005. How can they say in this article that the population, in 2002, is about 709 million? Are wrong the numbers? --Enkiduk (talk) 19:40, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Countries of Europe?

As of September 26th, Bulgaria and Romania are both accepted in the European Union, starting with January 1st 2007. Please update all the information with regard to this fact.

As a native Romanian living in France, I feel ofended by the fact that that you currently include Bulgaria in the EU in all of your statistics (which, by the way, is not correct), yet you leave Romania out. So either you talk about both countries or about none of them.

Thank you very much.

[edit] Multi-racial Europe

Europe is becomming more like the United States where there are many different ethnic groups and that race is an issue. Race riots are occurring in Europe like the one in France. Furthermore, millions of black africans and arabs are continously moving to Europe and they are driving Europeans crazy. Europe is close to Africa and Europeans can't do anything to stop the waves of immigrants from Africa. 72.140.235.202 00:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


Are you an American with problems??? You obviously don't know ANYTHING about Europe! Europe is not like Usa (fortunally). Immigrants are very few in the majority of Europeans countries.

Rounding up in internment camps does the job mirite?

[edit] Reason for contradict templates

My reason, as listed in the edit summary:

added templates for contradiction, Europe lists a population of 710 million, this article's intro lists 799 million, later, a table claims 728 million, difference in years couldn't account for this.

I'm not sure when these numbers crept in, but I don't think it's recent vandalism, as the edit history shows these figures at least as far back as April[1]. What are the correct numbers? If definitions (of what constitutes Europe) vary between the different estimates, this should be noted. Even if this were the case, I think one estimate would be better. If the estimates differ by year or by method (of counting or estimating), they should be only vary by a few percent, if by even that much. Thanks. Ufwuct 16:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You do have a point. It's because the estimates are coming from different sources and they may often contradict each other. I think the best way to avoid this problem would be to explicitly cite the source of each estimate next to the figure (e.g. according to the Council of Europe... according to the United Nations...). I'll do that now and also remove the tags.--Rudjek 21:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The Council of Europe includes all of Russia (including the 8 time zones in Asia), all of Turkey (though only a very small portion is in Europe), Armenia (almost all in Asia), and Georgia and Azerbaijan (only 1/2 in Europe). Including all of Turkey's population or the Asian part Russia's population (some of which is right next to Alaska) would be misleading and would be inconsistent with the Europe article. We should be consistent with the definition of Europe and not contradict other articles. Inconsistencies of a few million people would be understandable, but to be off by 85 million (about 12%) is not encyclopedic and is totally avoidable. Ufwuct 15:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge European peoples

That article simply duplicates the list of states and territories here.Paul111 11:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename from demographics to demography

Please see Talk:Demography#Demographics_vs_demography_confusion and comment.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Territories

Why are non-countries included in the list? --PaxEquilibrium 21:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I suppose because they are a part of Europe and people live there that should be included in the total. Why should it only include independent countries? --Bjarki 21:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes, within reason: territories in this table (which doubles the one at Europe) are organised and included, per the UN geoscheme; exceptions -- particularly to equitably deal with countries that may also be reckoned in Asia -- are noted. Corticopia 00:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Also, grudgingly, I reverted recent statistical changes to the table. The table does note figures from July 2002. I'm all for updates, but if we do so, I believe we must change all of them for consistency (i.e., with revised figures for a specific date) and comparison. Perhaps Geohive may be of use in this regard? Corticopia 00:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)