There are too many people
I come here over and over. The Wikipedia population site -- always a beacon of wisdom about the world's only real problem.
Fun facts!
With 0.5% of the world's population, Canada is home to almost exactly one out of every 200 human beings.
China has one in five.
If you include East and West Pakistan (Bangladesh and Pakistan), India's population is slightly over 1.4 billion, or, about one hundred million more than China within roughly the same land area.
China's population grows at a rate of about one person every second. If you factor in the people who are dying, it still goes up about one every two seconds. You can watch the ticker right here.
(This is pretty sketchy. It's fun though.)
Among the countries with larger populations than Canada: Burma, Algeria, Columbia.
Among the countries with populations more than double that of Canada: Ethiopia, Egypt, Thailand.
Four times more people than Canada: Nigeria.
Eight times as many people as Canada: Indonesia.
Top 5:
Pakistan and Bangladesh are the next two. Go India.
Fun facts!
With 0.5% of the world's population, Canada is home to almost exactly one out of every 200 human beings.
China has one in five.
If you include East and West Pakistan (Bangladesh and Pakistan), India's population is slightly over 1.4 billion, or, about one hundred million more than China within roughly the same land area.
China's population grows at a rate of about one person every second. If you factor in the people who are dying, it still goes up about one every two seconds. You can watch the ticker right here.
(This is pretty sketchy. It's fun though.)
Among the countries with larger populations than Canada: Burma, Algeria, Columbia.
Among the countries with populations more than double that of Canada: Ethiopia, Egypt, Thailand.
Four times more people than Canada: Nigeria.
Eight times as many people as Canada: Indonesia.
Top 5:
| 1 |  People's Republic of China [3] | 1,316,200,000 | ||
| 2 |  India | 1,123,400,000 | ||
| — |  European Union (combined) | 494,900,000 | ||
| 3 |  United States of America | 301,150,000 | ||
| 4 |  Indonesia | 234,050,000 | ||
| 5 |  Brazil | 188,078,261 |
Pakistan and Bangladesh are the next two. Go India.
posted by Timothy Holden at
6:01 AM
2 Comments:
"East and West Pakistan?" Holy Buckets, it's the 1970s* all over again.
*Only 80% of the music from that era is intollerable crap
By
Anonymous, at 9:42 AM
Good words.
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Anonymous, at 7:45 PM
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