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Cuba

Population: 11,163,934. Source: 2012 Census (Cuba). Official data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.170.68 (talk) 23:37, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Graph error

In the graph, Bangladesh is in seventh place and Nigeria is in eighth. But in the list below it, the positions are reversed. I believe the list, not the graph, is correct. The graph is probably outdated.

96.228.5.215 (talk) 01:24, 30 December 2012 (UTC) treplag[reply]

Canada

The entry for Canada lists the official population clock as the source, last retrieved on 29/12/12. Howeve the clock was taken down on 21/12/12. I am not sure how to update this, or what a new, more appropriate source is.

Matt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.174.87 (talk) 07:22, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Topics from 2013

Turkey

Turkey has a higher population then Iran now. --108.92.162.111 (talk) 20:40, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The population of Turkey became 75 627 384 on December 31, 2012, but Iran has ranked higher. We need another source to list Iran with a lower population. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:18, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands

I fixed the Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands for the following reasons.

1. Puerto Rico is a territory NOT A STATE of the United States of America. 2. United States Virgin Islands is a territory NOT A STATE of the United States of America.

Therefore I fixed both sections to show that there are overseen by the United States. And while Puerto Rico did vote for statehood there was some questions about the voting and it may take a long time before anything happens. If you have any questions please email me.

Thanks, Tom991 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom991 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrote table for Template:Autotable5_big

I have rewritten the table of populations to auto-number the rows, by using quick Template:Autotable5_big which inserts a row number for each 5 parameters, to automatically number the 242 rows (of 280 maximum). To allow an equals sign '=' in the URLs, each URL is wrapped in curly braces now, as {{{|[http:...]}}}, so any http text is passed into {{autotable5_big}} using a blank parameter. The rewrite of all 242 rows took several weeks to streamline (while carefully testing in the talk-page /sandbox version), so some population figures had changed, and the table is still being updated to match the latest numbers. Feel free to keep updating the table, but remember there are no longer any row numbers in the article markup, so search for each nation's name, as added to locate a row when editing, or hunt for the 3-letter cryptic codes ("LCA") which are still in the table markup. As rows are moved, or more added, the row numbers will automatically renumber in proper sequence. -Wikid77 (talk) 20:39, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Extensive auto-numbered rewrite was reverted, discarded after 1 day: With no follow-up to ensure quality, the auto-numbered version, which had "magically" renumbered all 242 entries, was instantly discarded to return to the tedious, manual list of hard-coded rank numbers, and the 239 nation names were removed to again have only the cryptic 3-letter nation codes in the huge markup table. Search inside for 235 nation names, and nothing will match to the rows as seen in the formatted page. The page was returned to the primitive search by population number, because all recent 239 nation names were removed from the page. However, eventually some figures were updated, to no longer match the auto-numbered version of the article. Anyway, the rank numbers do not change very often, so the manual ranks are fine, but the 239 nation names should be inside the markup table. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:18, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

EVERYONE PLEASE READ

Everyone last week I fixed the Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands sections to show that they are still part of the USA because they are NOT there own states. I ask that no one please change those. These two island territories are NOT there own country, they are unorganized territories of the United States. Why are people so difficult sometimes! tom991 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom991 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not trying to start a fight here, but perhaps people are "difficult" because the the article itself states that the list is "based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1" and that standard specifically includes both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Although it doesn't affect this argument, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are not "unorganized territories", they are "unincorporated organized territories" (cite). "Unincorporated" means that the inhabitants do not necessarily have "all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States", while "organized" means that they have an organized government. Cwelgo (talk) 05:18, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ISO 3166-1 re Kosovo

The ISO 3166-1 is useless, as it leaves out whole countries like Kosovo (which I have been trying to include). Kosovo's population is not included under Serbia - which would otherwise be c. 9 million - therefore it must be listed separately. I am thinking of deleting the reference to ISO 3166-1 at the beginning of the article - the ISO standard seems politically motivated. 24.108.61.172 (talk) 22:26, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The same goes for Abkhazia, Transistria and a few others entities. Kosovo's final status is undetermined, and until this is solved it could be either merged with Serbia's population count or omitted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Npi2000 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will put in Abkhazia, Transnistria, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. A good compromise can be found at List of countries by area - including debatable countries, but leaving them out of the sequential numbering system. 24.108.61.172 (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:List of countries by population/Archive 5#Excludes. Formally without these territories. This in a footnote. --PlatonPskov (talk) 20:58, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Figures do not add up

If population of India is 1,270,272,105, then its percentage of the world population would be 18.12% not 17%. The former is correct percentage. However, I cannot edit and make the change because I do not know how. The same applies to China. If the population figures are correct, then the Chinese percentage of the world population is 19.31% not what is written in the chart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.22.193 (talk) 00:45, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Population of India in May 2013 is set at 1,210,569,573: Because the population count being used is 60 million lower, the percentage is closer to 17% (rather than 18.12%). The current value for {worldpop} is: 8,117,611,000, and the formula gives: ( 1,210,569,573 / 8117611000 ) * 100 = 14.913%. A count 60 million higher would rank near 18% instead. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:18, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Norwegian flag?

That small flag attached to Norway (nr. 118) is definitely not my country's flag. See this page for the correct one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.203.133.228 (talk) 23:30, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FIXED. The list has been corrected to show the proper Flag of Norway. Thanks for reporting the problem. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:18, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Western Sahara

I have addressed this before: I don't see how the flag of the SADR represents the territory. The SADR controls a sparsely populated 20-25% part of Western Sahara. 109.99.71.97 (talk) 19:32, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]