Place Facts About Population

A mathematical thought experiment once claimed that if China's population walked past you in single file, the line would never end due to reproduction rates—but China's population is now declining for the first time since 1961.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

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

Despite being the birthplace of Buddhism, India today has less than 1% Buddhist population, a dramatic decline that occurred over the past thousand years.

"Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.

Each year, the number of births in India is comparable to the entire population of Australia.

In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.

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

In Japan, there are more pets than there are children.

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

There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.

There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.

In Russia, women outnumber men by about 10.4 million people.

There are more people living in London (8.3m) than the whole of Denmark (5.6m).

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

Kowloon Walled City crammed 33,000 people into just 6.4 acres - one city block. That made it the densest place in recorded human history. About 300 towers rose 14 storeys high, packed so close that sunlight never reached the alleys. Neither Britain nor China governed it, so residents built their own unlicensed economy. It was demolished in 1993-1994. The site is now a park.