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Member States

Date of accession
Date Member state
1958 Belgium
                             France
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
West Germany
1973 Denmark
Ireland
United Kingdom
1981 Greece
1986 Portugal
Spain
1990 East Germany
1995 Austria
Finland
Sweden
2004 Cyprus
The Czech Republic
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
2007 Bulgaria
Romania
Populations (2007)
Member State Populations (millions)
Germany 82.3
France 62.9
United Kingdom 60.4
Italy 58.8
Spain 43.8
Poland 38.2
Romania 21.6
Netherlands 16.3
Greece 11.1
Belgium 10.6
Portugal 10.6
Czech Republic 10.3
Hungary 10.1
Sweden 9.1
Austria 8.3
Bulgaria 7.7
Denmark 5.5
Slovakia 5.4
Finland 5.3
Ireland 4.2
Lithuania 3.4
Latvia 2.3
Slovenia 2
Estonia 1.3
Cyprus 0.8
Luxembourg 0.5
Malta 0.4
GDP per Capita in 2006 in PPS,(1) EU27 = 100
Member State GDP per capita
Luxembourg 280
Ireland 144
Netherlands 131
Austria 129
Denmark 127
Belgium 123
Sweden 121
United Kingdom 118
Finland 117
France 113
Germany 113
Italy 104
Spain 102
Cyprus 98
Greece 89
Slovenia 87
The Czech Republic 79
Malta 77
Portugal 75
Estonia 67
Hungary 66
Slovakia 63
Lithuania 58
Latvia 56
Poland 53
Romania 38
Bulgaria 37

(1) PPS, Purchasing Power Standards, an artificial reference currency unit that eliminates price level differences between countries. Thus one PPS buys the same volume of goods and services in all countries. This unit allows meaningful volume comparisons of economic indicators across countries.