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India's population is wrong

India's population is more than 1.4 billion, there are plenty of sources that confirm this. Yet this article feeds from an automated projected calculation from an outdated source that has accumulated a large error. 90.167.87.33 (talk) 09:06, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Although I don’t know how to fix it, I agree India should be 1. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 04:29, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I also agree, I guess we shoulh have a vote on this RayAdvait (talk) 15:29, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lets have a vote on this because India's data is just projections from 2011 so it meets the criteria for UN data RayAdvait (talk) 12:35, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It says in the lead that figures can be based on the estimates or projections for 2022 by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs if there no updated national figures.Selfstudier (talk) 16:05, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 2 February 2023

Update population of Russia to 146 424 729, https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/PrPopul2023_Site_.xlsx Estimate for 1 January 2023 Vivas-US (talk) 12:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Erledigt Lemonaka (talk) 10:32, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kenia

Kenya is now the 27th most populous country in the world instead of 30th place due to updated population figure for Kenya can someone change the placement of Kenya to 27th instead of 30th place 64mario (talk) 01:08, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please update this page.

It's important. Thank you. 2601:181:401:49B0:91A3:EA3D:A24E:85F9 (talk) 23:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Method

@64mario: I have tried to reach you on your user talk page, but it seems that you have not seen my message there. So I copy my message here, pinging you and hoping you will read it:

I see that you have been doing a number of updates to the List of countries and dependencies by population, which is fine. Given the large amount of data content from so many different sources, we definitely need more fresh eyes to keep the content up to date.

I must ask you, however, to read carefully the section 'Method' in the article. There you will se that (for this article specifically) we are using the most up-to-date estimates or projections by the national census authority, where available. Only if no national data are available, we use data from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. There is actually a separate article giving the UN DESA numbers: List of countries by population (United Nations). So keep up your good work with updating the article, but please refrain from using UN data as long as national data are available.

Just a small detail: When you enter the population numbers, it is not necessary to put in commas to separate the number groups. This is done automatically. If you put in 123456, it will come out as 123,456. No harm done, since both inputs will come out correctly, but it is a tiny bit simpler, and it has some advantages for the editing process. Happy editing, and regards! T*U (talk) 22:49, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok 64mario (talk) 22:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thailand population is wrong

The link is right, but the official Thai population in the link is 66 215 367 as of today. 91.64.176.101 (talk) 12:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Somaliland

Every other state on the List of states with limited recognition has an entry on this article, and now that Taiwan has recognized Somaliland, I think it certainly deserves a separate entry Free to play snake jazz (talk) 23:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Narrow page width

The default page width makes the notes column act differently - many rows are now fatter. It makes the list read more like a story book.

Should all the notes be moved into the notes section? I have made this change, but revert and discuss if desired. Wizmut (talk) 19:39, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

China

As India begins to surpass the People's Republic of China by the summer, there is technically the most populous country in the world: the Republic of China, as it has a population of 23,313,550 in the territories it only controls. If we go by the constitutional claims, the population would be a combined of the following areas:

at a population of 1,481,903,608 in total. 174.89.100.11 (talk) 09:36, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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