“biggest” would imply size by land area.
a more appropriate term would be “most populated”.
No offense to your post, but I think this is an absolutely terrible way to display data. A line graph would be so much cleaner and easier to read.
Its like a terrible subway map lol
What’s happening with Indonesia?
I wish this was updated with the current statistics. India has already taken over China in terms of population.
Zoonotic Bird Flu has entered the thread.
Why is ‘Latin America’ listed as of it is a continent? Mexico is part of North America.
Hey, my sincere apologies for my other reply. I had too much of Lemmy yesterday… after several DUMBASS replies trolling me (like putting words into my mouth, then ridiculing those straw man concepts - really though, I should have known better than to say that I like Mac OSX, even in a non-Linux, general-technology community, anywhere on the Fediverse, as that never fails to bring out the trolls from under the bridge… whenever will I learn!?:-P), I started to presume guilt everywhere I looked, and essentially unwittingly fed forward that negative behavior onto you, so again my apologies. This community I hope will remain better than that.
Thanks, I was going to let it go because I was sure you just misunderstood what I was saying, and honestly it isn’t worth arguing over. But I appreciate you following up.
Why is DRC expected to gain so much population?
Yeah, with how climate change is going, I would expect a country on the equator to not have a particularly good time…
Most of Africa, marginally better healthcare and uncontrolled population growth. It’s not linear growth it’s exponential.
They are probably using India/Pakistan over the last 40 years as a guide.
So what is the UN predicting to happen in the next 76 years for the DRC (population 109 million) to surpass the US (population 334 million)? The DRC historically doesn’t have the stability that would lead to explosive population growth, and with the climate continuing to warm and the DRC being on the equator it’s going to feel the effects of climate change particularly severely.
Nigeria (pop 230 million) seems more likely, though it also is going to have the same problems with climate change the rest of the middle latitudes will have.
Projecting 80 years out based on current trends is pretty silly to begin with.
Shit changes.
I never realized that the USA was in the top 3. Wow, what a rapid drop-off then, from roughly a billion or so people to a mere ~0.3. India and China truly stand apart, towering above so many others combined.
Since that is the case, it might be neat to show the EU then, if that helps close the gap to make them more comparable? But maybe that would be too improper a comparison.
I think it’s odd to see how China does not include Hong Kong or Taiwan. Like… of course it doesn’t!? I kinda get why someone wants to be precise to say that, but also it feels like giving in to a grumpy toddler child who claims that the whole world belongs to them - just bc they say it, doesn’t make it true!? Maybe there’s some other way to convey it that avoids that stigma, like “China refers only to the Mainland areas” or some such.
Or even more generally, “imperial powers like UK and China do not include their territories or projections” (whatever that last word should be). Similarly, does “USA” include things like Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, etc.? Maybe the population numbers don’t statistically matter for those situations, but then do they matter for China? It’s odd to see China uniquely called out then, like someone going out of their way to not anger Pooh-bear, when there may not even be a need to say anything about it at all?
I can understand Taiwan, as it is an independent country except for China’s claim to it.
HK is strange not to include at this point and moving forward. It’s part of China by every definition.
