‘ANNEX IIIFigures concerning the population of the Union and the population of each Member State for implementing the provisions concerning qualified majority voting in the Council

For the purposes of implementing Article 16(4) TEU, Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU and Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36, the population of the Union and the population of each Member State, as well as the percentage of each Member State's population in relation to the population of the Union, for the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 shall be as follows:

Member State	Population	Percentage of the population of the Union
Germany	81 089 331	15,93
France	66 352 469	13,04
United Kingdom	64 767 115	12,73
Italy	61 438 480	12,07
Spain	46 439 864	9,12
Poland	38 005 614	7,47
Romania	19 861 408	3,90
Netherlands	17 155 169	3,37
Belgium	11 258 434	2,21
Greece	10 846 979	2,13
Czech Republic	10 419 743	2,05
Portugal	10 374 822	2,04
Hungary	9 855 571	1,94
Sweden	9 790 000	1,92
Austria	8 581 500	1,69
Bulgaria	7 202 198	1,42
Denmark	5 653 357	1,11
Finland	5 471 753	1,08
Slovakia	5 403 134	1,06
Ireland	4 625 885	0,91
Croatia	4 225 316	0,83
Lithuania	2 921 262	0,57
Slovenia	2 062 874	0,41
Latvia	1 986 096	0,39
Estonia	1 313 271	0,26
Cyprus	847 008	0,17
Luxembourg	562 958	0,11
Malta	429 344	0,08
Total	508 940 955
Threshold (62 %)	315 543 392
Threshold (65 %)	330 811 621’.