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mdsw1 on April 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 7 billion people on 1 page

Just wondered how the population stats are measured? I.E. How do we actually know that there is this amount of people in the world?

Asia 4,221,013,428 Africa 1,056,035,237 Americas 947,209,798 Europe 738,356,924 Oceania 37,384,613

World 7,000,000,000

jerf on April 12, 2013 [–]

We don't, and even if we did, it changes on a minute-by-minute basis. This calls for a bit of suspension of disbelief.

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