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"Homeownership Rates in Select European Countries" -- That graph left out some of the countries mentioned in previous graphs that actually have higher home ownership rates :)

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Yes this bothered me too, so i checked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Europe, with that kind of doctoring of data for the sake of the story, how can we trust the rest of the data?

For Europe best is to look at Eurostat:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

As you can see, Romania has the highest rate of homeownnership, and not Spain.

I was also looking for eastern european countries, who suddenly disappeared from the scope...

They must have been replaced by Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States...

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