Product Description

Nearly two years on from the launch of the euro, this new (fourth) edition of POCKET EUROPE IN FIGURES brings you right up to date with the fact and figures about not only the countries that make up the EU but also the others that make up Europe today. From Austria to Albania, Germany to Georgia, the UK to Ukraine, it provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the continent, with information on an enormously diverse range of topics. These include who trades with whom; where inflation is highest and lowest; who has privatised most; how earnings vary; who taxes most; where cable and satellite penetration is highest; differences in household spending and saving; who pays what to the EU budget and how it is spent; where incidence of AIDS is highest; who buys most LP's, CDs and the like; who is most switched on to the internet; the greatest cat and dog lovers. There is no more fascinating source of hard data about Europe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1665700 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent at-a-glance facts and sources on Europe today
Facts and figures about the 48 countries that make up Europe today", Pocket Europe in Figures is the regional companion volume to the Economist's excellent "Pocket World in Figures", which should be inside the jacket of every international business executive. The compact, slim-line edition comprehensively covers key economic, social and political data, and is illustrated with easy-to-read graphs and tables.

Inevitably, the arbitrary nature of defining Europe as a geographic entity means that the 48 countries are selected primarily for convenience and availability of data (most of which is sourced to late 1990s figures).

Geographic coverage extends from Iceland in the north to Azerbaijan in the east, Malta in the south and Portugal in the west.

Content coverage extends from crucial insights into current and future demography, economy, society, to the surreal and frankly bizarre (e.g. analysis of pet ownership !).

In the spirit of globalisation, The Economist have also defined a new comparative economic index based on purchase-power parity: the "Big Mac index" , which compares the price of a Big Mac produced "locally" in 110 countries, 'in order to equalise the price of identical goods in each country' . Complex economic formulae distilled down to the price of a burger....

But if you want to know at a glance who lives where, does what, trades with whom, in what sectors, and what the implications are for investment in and business output from Europe, this is an invaluable reference.