[khurs]

EU population: 450 million + 70m UK

USA population: 348 million

The problem is that many of europe's top talent moves to USA, and also that American funding for European startups is huge, and many are made to relocate/IPO in USA too.

[graemep]

+ some smaller European countries not in the EU such as Norway.

Companies also move to the US (e.g. Stripe) or are bought big American companies (e.g. Deepmind)

[jononor]

Also, many of the successful European companies are bought up by US companies.