Place Facts About Demographics

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.

If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only about 30 people would live there.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

Niger (Africa) has the world's highest fertility rate - 7.1 children per mother.

Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.

Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Koreans in their 20s and 30s.

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Roughly 90% of the world's population live in the northern hemisphere.

Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.

In 1850, only 8% of the people in California were women.

A 2012 study in eastern Germany was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God.

Japan has around 4 million vending machines—one for every 30 people—which is still more than the entire population of New Zealand.

Latvia has the largest gender imbalance in Europe. Women outnumber men by over 130,000 — in a country of just 1.86 million people.