Population trivia - how many people live there? You may be surprised ...

[LVZ]

According to the CIA World Fact Book:

1.35 billion - China
1.22 billion - India

317 million - USA
251 million - Indonesia
201 million - Brazil
193 million - Pakistan
175 million - Nigeria
164 million - Bangladesh
143 million - Russia
127 million - Japan
116 million - Mexico
106 million - Phillipines

94 million - Ethiopia
92 million - Vietnam
85 million - Egypt
81 million - Germany
81 million - Turkey
80 million - Iran
76 million - Congo
67 million - Thailand
66 million - France
63 million - U.K. (Great Britain)
61 million - Italy

55 million - Burma (Myanmar)
49 million - South Korea
49 million - South Africa
48 million - Tanzania
47 million - Spain
46 million - Columbia
44 million - Kenya
43 million - Argentina

[LVZ]

1. Okay, seriously, how many knew that tiny Bangladesh had more people than the vast Russian empire?

Bangladesh: 144,000 square kilometers
Russia: 17 million square kilometers

[etherealtruth]

2. As I read through the list, Bangladesh is the one that jumped out at me ...

... I knew it was populous and small ... but, geesh

[Art_from_Ark]

9. For comparison, Bangladesh is slightly larger in area

than the state of Arkansas, but has more than 60 times the population

[Wilms]

4. I wondered why that is.

From wiki:

Bangladesh had high rates of population growth in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then however it has seen a marked reduction in its total fertility rate. Over a period of three decades it dropped from almost 7 to 2.4 in 2005-2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Bangladesh#Population_growth_rate

[Poll_Blind]

5. Not me- took me totally by surprise. nt

PB

[Las Vegas Mixx]

3. :-) and now you know how many Nigerian princes are ready to send $millions to you, IF ... n/t

[LVZ]

6. More urban population trivia - there are 7 world cities larger than the New York City metro area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population

[Las Vegas Mixx]

7. I also see that California now has more people than Canada and 150 other countries n/t

[Generation_Why]

10. Even with all that liberal abortion.

[progree]

8. Scary: The dramatic dot video of population growth. Begins 1 A.D. with 1 dot = 1 M people

The dramatic dot video of population growth. A world map beginning in 1 A.D. with 1 dot = 1 million people
http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issues_main

It is about 6 1/2 minutes long but you can skip the first 2 minutes -- the actual dot stuff begins at 2:00 and ends at 5:42. At 5:00 have reached about 1600 A.D. while the population is still quite modest outside of India and China. (So if you are in a time bind, you can start at 5:00 and watch just the last 42 seconds) "As the film neared present day and the dots started flying onto the screen, there were audible gasps, wide staring eyes, and mumblings of "no way" and "I knew we were growing but not THAT much."

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. I think you should put this up as its own post. Pretty effective illustration.