Comments on: 2010 Status of Southern Europe http://www.justinlong.org/2010/07/southern-europ/ Justin Long on the unevangelized, mobilizing missionaries, swarms, and other mission issues. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin Long http://www.justinlong.org/2010/07/southern-europ/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Justin Long Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:12:11 +0000 http://www.justinlong.org/?p=1389#comment-682 Thanks for the chance to clarify! (1) Charismatics are under independents; JWs under marginals. (2) The Christian numbers are the total population in millions, just as the Population numbers are: Greece has a population of 11.2 million, with 10.4 professing to be Christian (not 10.4%). (3) According to the numbers I have on file for GNP (not GDP, which does not include exports), Southern Europe has a total GNP of $1.88 trillion vs Northern Europe's $1.84 trillion. I am using UN stats which are divided between Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Europe. The "Northern Europe" listed above does not conform; it includes several nations found in Western or Eastern Europe. Thanks for the chance to clarify! (1) Charismatics are under independents; JWs under marginals. (2) The Christian numbers are the total population in millions, just as the Population numbers are: Greece has a population of 11.2 million, with 10.4 professing to be Christian (not 10.4%). (3) According to the numbers I have on file for GNP (not GDP, which does not include exports), Southern Europe has a total GNP of $1.88 trillion vs Northern Europe’s $1.84 trillion. I am using UN stats which are divided between Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Europe. The “Northern Europe” listed above does not conform; it includes several nations found in Western or Eastern Europe.

]]> By: Heinz http://www.justinlong.org/2010/07/southern-europ/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Heinz Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:48:08 +0000 http://www.justinlong.org/?p=1389#comment-681 So as a Charismatic, I get grouped as "marginal" together with Jehovah's Witnesses? Greece is 10.4% Christian and Italy 47.5%? I guess it depends really on how you define a Christian. If it is someone who belongs to the Catholic Church (as seemed to be implied in the article), then I doubt that Greece has that many. If it is someone who belongs to any Christian denomination, then I doubt that Greece would have so few. Then it should be closer to 95% for Greece. Strange article. This was also a weird sentence that I cannot make sense of: Southern Europe's total GNP is just slightly ahead of that of Northern Europe, even though it has half again as many people. Huh? That's just strange. I dug out the GDPs from Wikipedia, and came to: Southern Europe: Italy 2,112,780 Spain 1,460,250 Greece 329,924 Portugal 227,676 Ireland 227,193 Croatia 63,034 Slovenia 48,477 Serbia 42,594 Cyprus 24,910 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17,122 Albania 11,834 Macedonia 9,221 Malta 7,449 Monaco 6,919 Montenegro 4,086 Andorra 3,712 TOTAL: 4,597,181 Northern Europe: Germany 3,346,702 France 2,649,390 United Kingdom 2,174,530 Netherlands 792,128 Switzerland 500,260 Belgium 468,522 Poland 430,079 Sweden 406,072 Austria 384,908 Norway 381,766 Denmark 309,596 Finland 237,512 Ireland 227,193 Czech Republic 190,274 Romania 161,110 Hungary 128,964 Ukraine 113,545 Kazakhstan 109,115 Slovakia 87,642 Luxembourg 52,449 Belarus 48,984 Bulgaria 47,100 Lithuania 37,206 Latvia 26,195 Estonia 19,084 Iceland 12,133 Liechtenstein 5,028 Isle of Man 4,076 Faroe Islands 2,198 Total GDP: 13,353,761 So as a Charismatic, I get grouped as “marginal” together with Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Greece is 10.4% Christian and Italy 47.5%? I guess it depends really on how you define a Christian. If it is someone who belongs to the Catholic Church (as seemed to be implied in the article), then I doubt that Greece has that many. If it is someone who belongs to any Christian denomination, then I doubt that Greece would have so few. Then it should be closer to 95% for Greece. Strange article.

This was also a weird sentence that I cannot make sense of: Southern Europe’s total GNP is just slightly ahead of that of Northern Europe, even though it has half again as many people.

Huh? That’s just strange.

I dug out the GDPs from Wikipedia, and came to:

Southern Europe:

Italy 2,112,780
Spain 1,460,250
Greece 329,924
Portugal 227,676
Ireland 227,193
Croatia 63,034
Slovenia 48,477
Serbia 42,594
Cyprus 24,910
Bosnia and Herzegovina 17,122
Albania 11,834
Macedonia 9,221
Malta 7,449
Monaco 6,919
Montenegro 4,086
Andorra 3,712
TOTAL: 4,597,181

Northern Europe:

Germany 3,346,702
France 2,649,390
United Kingdom 2,174,530
Netherlands 792,128
Switzerland 500,260
Belgium 468,522
Poland 430,079
Sweden 406,072
Austria 384,908
Norway 381,766
Denmark 309,596
Finland 237,512
Ireland 227,193
Czech Republic 190,274
Romania 161,110
Hungary 128,964
Ukraine 113,545
Kazakhstan 109,115
Slovakia 87,642
Luxembourg 52,449
Belarus 48,984
Bulgaria 47,100
Lithuania 37,206
Latvia 26,195
Estonia 19,084
Iceland 12,133
Liechtenstein 5,028
Isle of Man 4,076
Faroe Islands 2,198

Total GDP: 13,353,761

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