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TIL that only seven countries make up more than half of the world's human population (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

More interesting, imo - China and India host over a third of the world population. Each host more than the next five combined.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Also interesting to me that India surpassed China's population. I know that their growth rate was significantly higher, but I thought they were still a ways off from surpassing them. With the birth rates a lot higher in India than China, I wonder how much larger their population will grow and what it will mean for global culture and communications.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Wow, I had no idea that Indonesia has almost 300,000,000 people. That’s pretty interesting!