The Geography of Europe

Degrees of European-ness


European Traits

  • over 80 percent Christian

  • over 80 percent Indo-European speaking

  • over 90 percent Caucasian

  • infant mortality rate below 10

  • per capita GDP of U.S. $10,000 or more

  • over 90 percent of people literate

  • 400 or more km of highway per 100 sq km of territory

  • less than 15 percent of workforce employed in agriculture

  • over 50 percent of people live in towns and cities

  • less than 1 percent annual natural population increase

  • no totalitarian governments or military coups since 1980



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Created by JTK. Last revised January 20, 2000.