Facts and Figures for the European Union

EU Statistics in a nutshell

• 27 Countries
• 23 Languages
• 497,198,740 Citizens
• 4,324,782 Square Kilometers
• 3.08 % water mass
• GDP: $14.712 Trillion
• GDP Per Capita: $28,213.00
• Internet Top Level Domain: .eu

List of countries in the EU:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• The Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• The Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• The United Kingdom

EU Candidate Countries:

• Croatia
• the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Turkey

Also Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo are officially recognised as potential candidates.

EU Rejects (European countries that have rejected EU membership)

• Iceland
• Liechtenstein
• Norway
• Switzerland

The European Union presently consists of 27 countries and has a total population of nearly 500 million citizens (497,198,740).