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India population 01-01-2012

India's Population 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.117.57.146 (talk) 19:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just encountered the broken link for India population where it says "2011 census" -- The correct link is: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/data_files/india/Final_PPT_2011_chapter3.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.211.240 (talk) 14:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

slovenia population as percentage of world population mistake

Slovenia's reported population as percentage of the world population is inconsistent with comparable countries. Its population is listed as 2.057M and the percentage of the world population is listed as .003% when is should be listed as .029%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddweeber (talk • contribs) 18:25, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Population May/July 2012 (new)

population of turkey is amounted to 79,749,461 million in may/july 2012. source:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html

http://www.tageo.com/index-e-tu-airport-tu.htm

http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/turkey/turkey_people.html

http://www.turkiccouncil.org/turkey/

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Turkey

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/history/balkan/turkey/general/facts.htm

88.66.32.125 (talk) 09:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All those sources are getting their info from the CIA, so there's no need to list the others. Secondly the CIA's population estimates are not reliable as you can already see when you compare the CIA data to the official data. Elockid ^(Talk) 12:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mh ok. but I have a few question the turkish article on cia have updates and all the years the number of the turkish population is growing. we should starting to think of point of the rightness of the cia's population estimates. I'm in doubt about the official date, because other sources then the cia have years ago estimated much more population then the official today. "the official" population estimate don't calculate the people in slums, isnt it? 88.66.32.125 (talk) 21:39, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the country's census bureau/national statistics office is considered the most reliable source of information as they are the actual organization who are tasked to collect the country's statistical data. Also the fact that the CIA doesn't match other reliable sources (see below) further damages its credibility:

I think you can already figure out which is the outlier here. Elockid ^(Talk) 17:56, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The UN 2010 is not a reliable sources. it shows projections. and when the world bank is so great reliable sources how comes that the last update is in 2010? and it's really funny to see in this sources that they say that 70million people live in 2004 in turkey and in 2005 it says only 67million people live. lol? what happen in 2004 and 2005 that 3million people lost in turkey? i am not kidding. for example the Eurostat estimate says that in 2006 72519974 people live in turkey but in 2007 3million people lose (69689256). lol? the world-gazetteer says in 2004 71152000 people live in turkey but after 3years in 2007 it says 70586256 ??? same in International Monetary Fund LOL. it says that 70.551 million in 2004 but 2005 67.224. ???

sorry i am not native english speaker watch this:

the world bank is don't losing populations. it shows a regular continuity growing. xd 88.66.32.125 (talk) 15:08, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If your basis is that UN is not a reliable source because it shows projections, then that goes the same for the CIA/US census. In fact all of the CIA data appears to be projections as they don't match with the censuses. The decrease is population because they are most likely recalibrating their estimates to be more accurate. This is common for all type of statistical data especially for estimates as in the case for ALL of the sources listed here. It doesn't matter if the last update was from 2010. Many organizations do not give yearly updates. This is not a basis for reliability. If the CIA is so reliable as you say, could you please find a source that actually has a figure close to the CIA? I don't mean the ones that just copy/paste from the CIA. Elockid ^(Talk) 15:35, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I just noticed that South Sudan is not on the list of countries. It just came into existence in July of 2011 which is probably why. According to this article

[1]

the estimated population is from 7.5 to 9.7 million. That would put is in the 85th to 99th spot on the list.

24.223.108.2 (talk) 19:46, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just as a note CIA factbook lists the population as 10,625,176 80th but 79th according to this list. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:20, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks to me like South Sudan is on the list at number 95, with a population within the range the IP mentioned. As the main goal of the edit request is already there I'm closing it, but I would tend to think the World Fact Book number may be a better one to use. Monty ₈₄₅ 16:31, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who keeps updating Mexico back to 15?

On several occasions the right population of mexico has been changed but someone keeps placing it back to number 15 with an old source. Please upadte accordingly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.27.153 (talk) 11:47, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Poland official population (based on census 2011) as of 31 December 2011 - population: 38 538 447

Ludność w gminach według stanu w dniu 31.12.2011 r. bilans opracowany w oparciu o wyniki NSP’2011 (click: Pobierz) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.57.185.74 (talk) 21:58, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

This is my first time making an entry on Wikipedia, so please excuse me if I am doing this wrong. I have noticed on many occasions that lists of important information, population, area, etc. are formatted as tables on the site. This is great. It would be even better, way better, to also include a downloadable .csv file for these sorts of tables. Is this possible? If I knew how to do this, I would be glad to create such files and put them up on the site. I guess it might be hard to keep those up to date along with the other data so maybe that's why it's not done.

Any ways, if you have any ideas or think I can help, I'd be glad to, but I don't want to get in the way either.

-Glen Pierce I'll try to remember to check back here to see if there's a response, but I am somewhat absent minded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.126.129 (talk) 20:17, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Population Rank

I believe that only UN member states should be ranked... the rest should not. -- cchow2 (talk) 10:17, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That might be an appropriate modification at Member states of the United Nations#Current members but why would we do that here? -- AussieLegend (✉) 10:23, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Western Sahara

Western Sahara shouldn't be listed with the flag of the SADR. The SADR only controls 20-25% of the territory. 109.99.71.97 (talk) 18:13, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dependent territories?

I see the the issue of including dependent territories has been discussed before ([[2]]). At the time, somebody proposed following the French wikipedia format (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_pays_par_population), where dependent territories are included under their mother country. The drawback to this approach is that dependent territories are not ranked. Frankly, being able to include dependencies in the ranking doesn't seem that useful to me. Currently the article double counts residents of various French dependencies under both France and the dependency itself (although this is noted in a footnote), which seems to be a far bigger problem than not having French Polynesia ranked. I realize the way the statistics are compiled varies from country to country (e.g., Hong Kong population is compiled separately from the rest of China, and UK only includes residents in the British Isles, although I assume Bermudans have UK passports). This article seems to attract a lot of drive-by editors (like myself) who update the population figures without taking full note of what dependencies may or may not be included in the figure. Grouping dependencies under their mother country would highlight situations where double counting might occur and would ensure that populations figures stay accurate without double counting. Is the loss of dependencies from the ranked list really so terrible that we want to leave the door should be open for double counting?Plantdrew (talk) 20:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cuba

Population: 11,163,934. Source: 2012 Census (Cuba). Official data.