The map above shows what percentage of people in each EU member state think that the EU has benefited their country. As Landgesit explains:
The exact question in the survey was: “Taking everything into account, would you say that (OUR COUNTRY) has on balance benefited or not from being a member of the EU?”. People could answer this question with “Benefited”, “Not benefited” or “Don’t know”.
Ireland, Luxembourg and Lithuania are notable in their support with over 90% thinking their country had benefited from the EU. Austria was the lone country with support below 60%, although even there a majority (54%) thought they had benefited from membership.
The EU average was 72%.
The data comes from the EP Autumn 2021 Eurobarometer survey taken between November and December 2021.
Below is the support level by country:
- Ireland: 95%
- Luxembourg: 92%
- Lithuania: 91%
- Malta: 89%
- Portugal: 88%
- Denmark: 86%
- Estonia: 84%
- Poland: 84%
- Croatia: 83%
- Netherlands: 82%
- Spain: 81%
- Hungary: 79%
- Belgium: 78%
- Latvia: 76%
- Slovenia: 76%
- Czech Republic: 73%
- Germany: 73%
- Finland: 72%
- Slovakia: 72%
- Cyprus: 71%
- Sweden: 71%
- Romania: 65%
- France: 63%
- Greece: 63%
- Italy: 63%
- Bulgaria: 60%
- Austria: 54%
And here’s another map with 2023 figures:
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SteveB says
I’d love to the the result of asking this of a statistically significant sample of the UK population.