Brussels, 17/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - On 1 January 2000, the total population of the European Union stood at 375.967 million, up 2.6% on the previous year, whereas the population had fallen in half the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, had risen by 9.4% in the United States, by 9.1% in China and 16.2% in India, and had practically remained stable in Japan, notes a report published jointly last week by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, and by the Council of...