which western european countries got skipped?

my "western empire" statistical area included:

portugal -  10
spain - 47
france - 67
italy - 60
germany - 83
switzerland- 9
belgium- 11
netherlands- 17
luxembourg- 1
austria- 9
czechia- 11
slovenia - 2

i did not consider the british isles or scandinavia to be a part of western europe, but rather split them off together into a separate statistical region due to historical discontinuities with roman culture. there would then be an eastern europe, centered on moscow (but historically on constaninople) that would include the slavic and baltic speaking countries, as well as historical greece, which is where the culture of eastern europe ultimately originates from. that means that i'm splitting europe into three regions - the western empire (rome/paris), the eastern empire (constantinople/moscow) and the untamed viking wilderness (british isles & scandinavia).

(edit: i might let you consider the baltic and finnic countries, together, along with the north of poland, to be a part of scandinavia, but i would not let you consider them to be a part of the western empire. concerns about muscovite hegemony aside, the teutonic knights were hardly much better. the fact is that these regions were christianized by force in a series of crusades that happened well into the modern era, so citing russian chauvinism is hardly much of an argument against catholic barbarity. the balts and slavs are culturally almost indistinguishable, but if you don't like that then the right answer is to split them off as untamed pagans on the periphery of vikingdom, not fold them into the west.)

to complete the thought, portugal is an interesting test case as they did much better than spain without a harsh lockdown, putting them in the same category as sweden. the countries directly in the german sphere of control (including denmark) seem to have done a little better, which is perhaps not surprising. the low countries did not do so well, and may belong in the same tier as the uk. lastly, ireland performed more like france than a part of the united kingdom - as it generally does.

you can work those numbers out if you want to compare your favourite european country to the big seven, but i don't think it really clarifies anything to do so. you can get all of the important idea out just by looking at the countries that kevin drum cherry-picked.