The Economist Pocket Europe in Figures

The Economist

Publisher: The Economist, 1997, 208 pages

ISBN: 1-86197-025-0

Keywords: International Enterprise

Last modified: Aug. 5, 2021, 10:22 a.m.

This new pocket book, a companion to The Pocket World in Figures, presents a definitive picture of the countries that make up Europe today - from Austria to Albania, Germany to Georgia, the UK to the Ukraine.

  • Land and the environment
    • Land area and use
    • Natural facts
    • Saving nature
    • Air pollution
    • Waste and recycling
    • Weather
  • Population
    • Population
    • Population density
    • City living
    • Sex and age
    • Matters of breeding
    • Who lives where
    • Migration
    • Who speaks what
  • The economy
    • Economic strength
    • Living standards
    • Agriculture's contribution
    • Industry's contribution
    • Services' contribution
    • Mineral resources
    • Energy
    • Current account balances
    • Biggest visible traders
    • Visible trade balances
    • Biggest invisible traders
    • Invisible trade balances
    • Who exports what to whom
    • Who imports from where
    • Top traders by sector
    • Exchange rates
    • Inflation
  • Government finances
    • General government revenue
    • General government spending
    • Central government revenue
    • Central government spending
    • Spending on what?
    • Debt: rich countries
    • Debt: poor countries
    • Aid
    • Money supply
    • Reserves
    • Interest rates
    • Taxation
  • Labour
    • The changing workforce
    • What people do — and did
    • Unemployment
    • What people earn
    • Taxing matters
    • Strikes
    • Work and play
  • Business and finance
    • Agriculture: leading producers
    • Industry: who makes what
    • Inventiveness and investment
    • Service sectors
    • Big business
    • Banking
    • Insurance
    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • Privatization
    • Foreign direct investment
    • Stockmarkets
  • Tourism and transport
    • Tourism
    • Road transport
    • Rail transport
    • Air transport
    • Sea transport
    • Freight
  • Health and education
    • Life and death
    • Causes of death
    • Drinking and smoking
    • Health matters
    • Education enrolment ratios
    • Spending and teachers
    • Years of education
  • Society
    • Family matters
    • Age factors
    • Religion
    • Income and savings
    • Consumer spending
    • Wired world
    • books and newspapers
    • Crime and punishment
    • Music and gambling
    • Pets
  • Government and defence
    • Europe's national goverments
    • Defence
  • The European Union
    • Members and votes
    • EMU: the Maastricht criteria
    • The European Parliament
    • Budget contributions
    • Agricultural and regional aid
    • The exchange rate mechanism
    • The ecu

Reviews

The Economist Pocket Europe in Figures

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

OK ***** (5 out of 10)

Last modified: Dec. 12, 2007, 2:19 p.m.

Useful facts about Europe (but depressing reading if you're a Swede with illusions).

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