Region Report 2018: Northern and Western Europe

Abstract

The Northern and Western Europe region includes economies from Northern Europe—Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and Western Europe—Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are member states of the European Union, and both Norway and Switzerland are key partners to the European Union. The Northern and Western European regions have an estimated population of 299 million (World Bank, 2016); the countries participating in this study account for 93.7 percent of the population in the region.