[alexander_busek]

Where did you get that erroneous "List of Most-Populous Countries?"

And why is the U.S. listed as the NINTH most-populous country in the world, with a population of 129,256,480 [sic]?

Regards,

[Peter ODonnell]

I think he subtracted 200 million for effect.

Here’s a link to wikipedia’s list which is slightly more recent by the looks of the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

Let’s just take a moment to think about something here.

China’s population of 1.4 billion lives on roughly the same habitable portion of their country as do the 340 million in America. That is about half of the land mass in each case.

So China is on average four times as densely populated as America.

It contains 18% of the world’s population. When Hitler went to war with the world, Germany contained less than 1% of the world’s population, and the Axis perhaps 2-3 per cent.

These are factoids that any reasonable person would find disturbing in any context.