Might have something to do with the fact that your country hadn’t entered the EU until relatively recently. (Mine was one of the founding members of the EEC, but I’m quite familiar with the Wikipedia article naming conventions so I correctly guessed what the question was about.)
I’m European (EU member state) and it didn’t occur to me anyone would be interested in the combined population of EU member states.
Might have something to do with the fact that your country hadn’t entered the EU until relatively recently. (Mine was one of the founding members of the EEC, but I’m quite familiar with the Wikipedia article naming conventions so I correctly guessed what the question was about.)