Talk:World population

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The UN number in - d*mn quick!

English is (now) known to be a global language, one that tourists especially know very well and "belonging" to 2 - 4 Bn people, loosely and by my own estimate given fast expanding Internet (Glo Network and so on) all users combined, primary and secondary: I want the UN counter (that speaks for everyone) IN. It is here: http://7billionactions.org/ . (Yes, we still miss the US commitment to the UN, but they have indeed signed Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, still though in the World, cluster bombs and mines, all "maiming well"!) 84.202.100.86 (talk) 22:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC), removing a slight, "false accusation". 84.202.101.225 (talk) 11:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

White people only 12% of the population?

The world population is seven billion. 10% of that is 700 million, so 12% is something like 850 million. There are 730 million people in Europe, of which only about 30 million are non-Europeans. So, 700 million white Europeans plus 220 million White Americans= 920 million people. Then you have around 200 million White Latin Americans, which then places the white population above one billion. I can't even access the source that says whites are 12% of the population. It has to be bigger than that.

The Universe Is Cool (talk) 18:20, 19 September 2012 (UTC)The Universe Is Cool

There actually seems to be no source given for the "12-13%" statement; possibly someone added just the "Germans, French and English" mentioned in the "reference" footnote, which might explain the discrepancy. But do you have references for the numbers you give here? I would expect the number of white Latin Americans to be much smaller, for example...--Roentgenium111 (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

White Latin Americans number around 200 million. There are over 220 million White Americans. That's over 400 million people plus the 700 million Europeans. The number of white people easily exceeds one billion.

The Universe Is Cool (talk) 08:40, 9 October 2012 (UTC)The Universe Is Cool

Why not erase the whole skin-notions whatsoever, as they are so "conspiring" and rather use "ethnicity" such as Euro-Americans for these "white" Americans? Any good? 109.189.208.182 (talk) 08:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

What does this have to do with the conversation? My point is people of European descent number over one billion and easily surpass 12% of the world population.

The Universe Is Cool (talk) 09:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)The Universe Is Cool

Billion fallacy in second sentence of article

I don't seem able to edit that first paragraph of content, but there's a very slight (though significant) fallacy. It says:

As of today, it is estimated to number 7,044,445,200 billion by the United States Census Bureau (USCB).

But that's not the case. It should read "7,044,445,200 people" or "7.044 billion". 7 billion billion people would be far more than this world could handle.

Jpickar (talk) 22:35, 9 October 2012 (UTC) Jason

Yeah, that was some IP's test edit/vandalism. I've fixed it now. Michaelmas1957 (talk) 22:37, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks!

Jpickar (talk) 23:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Population by continent

Australia is most depressed at not being invited to the party. 2birds1stone (talk) 04:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect/confusing continent identifications

1. The section entitled "Population by region" is very confusing. Continents (e.g. Asia and Europe), are compared to Regions (e.g. "Northern America" and "Oceania"). It is apples and oranges.

2. The table on the right says, "Top ten most populous (%)". Most populous what? It lists North America and Asia, which are continents, and Latin America and the Middle East, which are not continents. And only six of the ten entities are numbered.

3. The table on the right shows "Asia" and underneath it "+ China". There are several other "+" signs, which should be bullets, not the symbol for addition.

4. In the table on the right, the population of "North America" does not include Central America, as it should, because (presumably) Central America is included in "Latin America". And the footnote to "North America" mistakenly defines it as "US, Canada, Mexico".

5. In the table on the right, under "Europe" is "ex-Soviet Union". Since the Soviet Union no longer exists, it is hard to see how this matters anymore.

96.228.5.215 (talk) 00:05, 30 December 2012 (UTC) treplag

Mega cities map is wrong

This image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2006megacities.PNG is wrong. Germany is all covered in red, but the only Germany cities that have more than 1 million inhabitants are Berlin, Hamburg, München (Munich) and maybe Köln (Cologne). 93.128.151.22 (talk) 17:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Billion (again)

In my opinion, the first usage of the word "billion" needs an internal link. I've explained why a while back and as a result of a short discussion (see Talk:World_population/Archive_3#Billion), an edit was made. That edit was reverted rather quickly. However, nothing has changed: billion is still a important term in this context and it is still an ambiguous term because of long/short scale issues. Please discuss and if billion gets an internal link again, maybe add <!-- a comment after it --> that explains why it's linked. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 18:36, 26 February 2013 (UTC)