<P> Only about 4% of the population of Vietnam has water fluoridation, whereas only 70% get their water from public supplies . </P> <P> Out of a population of about three - quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately a mere 2%) in Europe receive artificially - fluoridated water . Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (3,250,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000). </P> <P> The first water fluoridation in Europe was in West Germany and Sweden in 1952, bringing fluoridated water to about 42,000 people . By mid-1962, about 1 million Europeans in 18 communities in 11 countries were receiving fluoridated water . </P> <P> Many European countries have rejected water fluoridation in general . This includes: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland, Iceland, and Italy . A 2003 survey of over 500 Europeans from 16 countries concluded that "the vast majority of people opposed water fluoridation". </P>

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