This image illustrates a pie chart that talks about the population of countries of the European union in 2007 by percentage. Germany has the highest population, comprising of over 16.6 percent of the overall population of the European union. This is followed by France at 12.8 percent and the United Kingdom at 12.3 percent. Italy, Spain and Poland make up 11.9, 9 and 7.7 percent of the European union’s population respectively. The remaining 21 countries make up 29.7 percent of the European union’s population.