Talk:World population

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Haub's "40.1%" claim needs removed

This part is inaccurate: "His estimates for infant mortality suggest that around 40% of those who have ever lived did not survive beyond their first birthday."

The article mentions infant mortality, but the numbers are only representative of one time period (a very generic time period at that)

"Infant mortality in the human race’s earliest days is thought to have been very high—perhaps 500 infant deaths per 1,000 births, or even higher. Children were probably an economic liability among hunter-gatherer societies, a fact that is likely to have led to the practice of infanticide."

Using that as a basis for the 40% claim is wrong.

It's also important to note that the he says this in reference to the idea of projecting the number of people who have 'ever lived':

"Any such exercise can be only a highly speculative enterprise, to be undertaken with far less seriousness than most demographic inquiries."

Infobox

The infobox says: "Geographical definitions as in IEA Key Stats 2010 p. 66", but I am not able to find the definition for "post-Soviet Union" according to this. Perhaps someone would enlight me as to who uses this definition and why it is relevant for this article? ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 11:36, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

If ANYONE has a more "updated statistic" of the "World Population" for 2014, that would be GREATLY Appreciated, seeing as how these "statistics" are from 2012

Thanks you -(Aiden Pierce)- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.37.7.14 (talk) 01:44, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

rename page to: Human Population (or something of the sort)

Human's are not the World. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.39.234.66 (talk) 01:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Really, I don't think there is any need to change that; nobody will misunderstand.

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The growth is definitely slowing now

2010, the date of the headline graph, is quite a long time ago. This http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/beyond/beyondco/beg_03.pdf is more recent and less ambiguous. This graph:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Population_Growth_1750_-_2050_sourced_by_the_World_Bank.jpg seems quite clear. Would other editors object it replacing the current article headline graph please?

SmokeyTheCat 12:44, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry but the graph is not displaying altho I uploaded it. Do I have to wait for the image to be validated or am I just a stupid old man baffled by the technology? Help, please!

Well, in the absence of any response here I have replaced the graph. I am aware that this is far from perfect but the best I can do. SmokeyTheCat 09:55, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Hello, is there any indication that the license for that pdf is compatible with wikipedia? Also adding the image like this on the page breaks the layout. --McSly (talk) 00:52, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Maybe not but I am just concerned that the current graph gives readers a false impression. There is no way that the upper or lower lines on it are accurate. Only the middle line is right. Population is rising but the rate of rise is slowing. Human population growth is very predictable as we know well how many children women will have on average and how many of these will survive. Human population is set to peak and will not reach 11 billion as the more accurate graph shows. Surely this truth is more than important than the layout of the article? The layout can be changed anyway. SmokeyTheCat 09:08, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

COI

A contributor to this article is citing his own work, per the box above. Needs to be reviewed for NPOV. Jytdog (talk) 02:04, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Somedifferentstuff - i see - you took the "box above" to mean literally just above this section. I was referring to the "connected contributor" tag at the bottom of the yellow box way, way at the top of this page, which actually refers to conflicts of interest (COI). Sorry for being too terse - that is my bad. Jytdog (talk) 18:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Jytdog, when you said above, I didn't go far : ) ...... No worries. -- Somedifferentstuff (talk) 18:50, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

fixed it here. Jytdog (talk) 01:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Error in Copy

The fifth paragraph down(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population) contains this text, " Northern America, primarily consisting of the United States and Canada, has a population of around 352 million (5%)" I believe the United States population is approximately 352, which would mean nobody is living in Canada. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Variable1980 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 28 March 2015 (UTC) Not to mention Mexico (amazingly, also part of North America)'s population is approximately 122 million compared with Canada's approximate population of 35 million. 204.99.118.9 (talk) 23:39, 10 June 2015 (UTC)