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[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's because some people are using Europe in its proper continental usage, and some people using it really mean the EU. In this thread we're discussing the EU because it's a comparable entity to the US as covered in a previous reply.

FYI the UK is a shade under 70m population the last time I checked - nowhere near enough to add 300m to Europe's population.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Correct but I also know the Schengen area doesn’t include all European countries too. So my guess was that combined with the UK might be the missing 300M