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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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.35.217.217 (talk) 00:55, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Moreover, the stated criterion is "metropolitan area"; Moscow has a larger population by metropolitan area than Istanbul even including Istanbul's Asian side. Istanbul is only larger by the "city proper" criterion. Magic9mushroom (talk) 03:41, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request to format an enumeration of numbers as a table

Please can someone tableize the text "Using the above figures, the change in population from 2010 to 2015 was: <bulleted list>" in the same format as the table directly above it? That would improve readability. Thanks.

Orbilin (talk) 21:05, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the current population growth rate is around 1.2% and COVID-19 death rate is much higher, might world population go down?

If the current population growth rate is around 1.2% and COVID-19 death rate is much higher, with 0% population immunity, might world population go down? WordwizardW (talk) 01:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

North American Population wrong

In the intro it gives 363 million for North America, but the countries' wiki pages has US at 328 million (2019) census, Mexico around 120 million (2020), and Canada 38 million so it's closer to 490 million. 2602:306:CD96:CC10:3825:A326:B481:1978 (talk) 12:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done, Mexico was added recently by mistake. The Northern America doesn't include it. 363 Millions is just US + Canada. Thanks for noticing the problem. --McSly (talk) 12:57, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Population

What was the world's population in the year 1000 Clpcls54 (talk) 07:13, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What was the worlds population when Jesus was here, around the year 40 A.D. Clpcls54 (talk) 07:17, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously, nobody knows, but I believe that is adequately addressed in the article; see section World population#Past population. There are no figure for AD 40, but for AD 1 and AD 1000. (Actually the gap between those two is uncomfortably large; iy would be nice with reliably sourced estimates in that interval too.)--Nø (talk) 08:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pimentel to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pimentel_(scientist)

I can't edit, but this link needs correcting