EU Country Comparison

Our "blogger group" found some information from five different EU countries. Information was found from Estonia, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus and Latvia. Now we are going to compare them in this blog post.

Estonia, Belgium and Latvia are all same sized countries by their area. Cyprus is the smallest of the countries and Croatia is the largest country. The population count is between 1,2 - 4,2 million in these countries. But in great stories there is always the "black sheep" and in this case, it is Belgium. Belgium's population is almost 11,4 million so it's many times larger country than others by population count.

Since Belgium is the largest country by its population, it has more EU representatives than other countries. Belgium is also the only one who is an "original" EU member country. Other countries in our list have joined EU in the 21th century. Four out of five countries use euro as their currency. Croatia uses Croatian Kuna instead of euro. 

We made a table of all our five countries and we included there some main points about their bandage with EU:

	Population	Currency	Schengen-area	Joined EU	EU representatives	Unemployment rate
Belgium	11,35M	Euro	26.3.1995	1.1.1958	21 (2,8%)	7,6%
Croatia	4,2M	Croatian Kuna	No	1.7.2013	11 (1,5%)	10.6%
Cyprus	1,2M	Euro	No	1.5.2004	6 (0,8%)	10,8%
Estonia	1,3M	Euro	21.12.2007	1.5.2004	6 (0,8%)	6,6%
Latvia	2M	Euro	16.4.2003	20.9.2003	8 (1%)	8,5%