At 9:05 AM +0200 2005-09-12, Brad Knowles wrote:
Note that the Netherlands pulls well beyond their expected weight,
because they have a population of only about 16 million, and yet they
are #2 in the region, ahead of even Germany with a population that is
almost twenty times the size.
Oops, sorry. My bad. I wrote this before I got the actual
numbers below. Germany has only slightly more than five times the
population of the Netherlands, not twenty. Still, that's pretty
bloody impressive!
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