diff --git a/python/extract_countries_data.py b/python/extract_countries_data.py
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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+
+def fetch_webpage(url):
+    response = requests.get(url)
+    return response.content
+
+
+def extract_countries_data(html_content):
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
+
+    table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'sortable'})
+
+    rows = table.find_all('tr')[2:]
+    countries_data = {}
+
+    for row in rows:
+        columns = row.find_all(['th', 'td'])
+        country_name = columns[1].text.strip()
+        official_figure = int(columns[4].text.replace(',', '').strip())
+
+        countries_data[country_name] = {'country_population': official_figure}
+
+    return countries_data
+
+
+def calculate_percentage(countries_data, total_population):
+    for country, data in countries_data.items():
+        population_percentage = (data['country_population'] / total_population) * 100
+        data['country_population_percentage'] = round(population_percentage, 1)
+
+
+def print_countries_data(countries_data):
+    print("{")
+    for country, data in countries_data.items():
+        print(f"  '{country}': {data},")
+    print("}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    the_url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_states_by_population'
+
+    the_html_content = fetch_webpage(the_url)
+
+    the_countries_data = extract_countries_data(the_html_content)
+
+    the_total_population = sum(data['country_population'] for data in the_countries_data.values())
+
+    calculate_percentage(the_countries_data, the_total_population)
+
+    print_countries_data(the_countries_data)
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