Your assumption that the number of countries is more important than the proportion of people absolutely doesn't make sense to me. Is 80% of countries represent

Your assumption that the number of countries is more important than the proportion of people absolutely doesn't make sense to me. Is 80% of countries representing 20% population more meaningful 20% countries representing 80% population? (Arbitrary numbers to illustrate my point.) I realise this is quite pedantic but I think measuring "covered population" is more relevant than measuring administrative repartition especially with the Schengen factor. Of course there's progress to be made either way but can you explain to me in what way my heuristic isn't appropriate to you?