ETF volume: abnormally low?

He-Man

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I've been thinking about buying one of Vanguard's Europe-domiciled ETFs. The ETF in question contains around 504 businesses across some 16 countries and has an attractive TER. I'm a buy-and-hold investor, so I'm not interested in selling.

One thing, however, is putting me off the ETF: Today its trading volume was less than 500.

Now, might this be due to the fact that Vanguard pays out its quarterly dividend for this ETF tomorrow? I can see that over the past month the daily volume has ranged from today's 500 to as high as 40k, but all the same, daily volumes of <3k are quite common for this ETF. Yahoo gives the average daily volume as 17,000.

Best avoided or perfectly fine for long-term investors?
 
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