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New Section: Number of Living Humans

Would like to see the chart summarized with totals, telling such as number of humans currently living.<3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hornyowl (talk • contribs) 06:48, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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10 most densely populated countries (with population above 5 million)

Rank Country Population Area (km2) Density (Pop. per km2) 1 Singapore 5,535,000 710 7','796 2 Bangladesh 161,940,000 143,998 1,125 3 Taiwan 23,519,518 36,190 650 4 South Korea 50,801,405 99,538 510 5 Lebanon 5,988,000 10,452 573 6 Rwanda 11,553,188 26,338 439 7 Burundi 11,552,561 27,816 415 8 Netherlands 17,110,000 41,526 412 9 Haiti 11,078,033 27,065 409 10 India 1,311,960,000 3,287,240 399

In this chart you need to add a comma after the first 7 in the density column for the Singapore row. Rbspyro (talk) 18:24, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 17:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The united nations, 1st paragraph.

The United Nations estimates that World Populations will reach 6 billion by the year 2100, a reduction of 1.4 billion due overal Universal improvements in hygiene, living standards and education. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.88.226.115 (talk) 17:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a cite or reference for this? TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Population check for Lagos

The article refers to the largest city in Africa being Lagos at 21M people. However, the Wikipedia article on Lagos itself only has lower numbers; even the numbers for Lagos state (more than the metropolitan area) are lower than 21M. So I'm wondering where the 21M number comes from and if it should be updated. As I'm not sure what a proper number would be I didn't want to make the page edit myself. --84.30.8.211 (talk) 09:48, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The greater number of men is possibly due to the significant sex imbalances evident in the Indian and Chinese populations.

Hi, I believe that this statement is misleading. Almost all the countries with a young population and not affected by war, have a sex ratio above or at 1.01. More male children are born, but life expectancy is higher for women in almost all the countries. Stating that the sex ratio is the effect of Indian and Chinese populations is a nice political point to make, buy its misleading without the context of population age. We also have the biological (and more controversial) issues, including the age of the father, a number of children born per women etc. Notice that I am not saying that the "significant sex imbalance" referenced are not true, they are. I believe that we should clarify the statement (the use of impacted by, versus "due to") or adding a clarifying note.

Worldometer vs. Census.gov

Why is the US-based Census.gov number consistently much lower than other sources, such as Worldometers.info and PRB, yet it gives a higher count for US population than some other online sources? Should this - and problems in counting - be discussed more? MaynardClark (talk) 12:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

most populated european city

the most populated european city is Moscow, Istambul is larger but around the 40% of its population is in the asian side