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India and China

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India

Please update, India has a higher population than China

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2023_policy-brief-153.pdf 180.150.36.216 (talk) 04:32, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it needs an update as it doesn't match India's wiki page of 1,428 billion and China at number 2 with it's 1,409 billion. CHCBOY (talk) 19:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See List of countries by population (United Nations), which is a list based purely on estimates from the United Nations.-- Maxeto0910 (talk) 17:53, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thailand's population is now 71,869,367 MaruchaLaosdy (talk) 06:30, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 06:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

United Nations Population Fund

According to the UNPF there is currently 8,119 M people in the world and not 8,102 M : https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.24.187.214 (talk) 13:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Correct date of San marino's population data source.

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Change San Marino population data source date from 29 February 2023 (which is incorrect according to the source and doesn't exist) to 29 February 2024. IntrospectiveSwallows (talk) 09:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done PianoDan (talk) 16:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thailand population is now 71,881,336. 11edetrs (talk) 02:03, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton (talk) 19:04, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About the German population date

Germany's official population date is wrong, because it should be March 31 in particular. 181.197.204.240 (talk) 23:07, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add European Union population

It would be helpful to see the European Union total population between China and the United States. Leave it unranked, as the EU is not a country, formatted in the list like the world total population and territories/dependencies. January 2024 EU total population estimate: 449.2 million https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Population_and_population_change_statistics#:~:text=Looking%20at%20the%20bigger%20picture,per%20year%20during%20the%201960s. ResearchbyAlec (talk) 19:13, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's been discussed a number of times [1]

Usually the reason for not including it is because there's quite a few international organizations, none of which are countries. Wizmut (talk) 03:00, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sovereign Order of Malta

Would there be any problem with adding the Knights of Malta to the table? Their actual physical sovereign territory consists of only a handful of offices but apparently they have a number of Knights who hold only citizenship of the Order and they do issue passports recognized for world travel. The official number of Knights is 13,500. Pascalulu88 (talk) 13:50, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Usually just the entries in the ISO 3166-1 and partially recognized states are in the list. Wizmut (talk) 14:35, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I checked and, as of 2017, the code assigned to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is XOM. So does that mean I can add them to the table? Their passports are recognized by 113 countries. Pascalulu88 (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That code isn't from the ISO and it's not a state, so I would say not. Wizmut (talk) 21:04, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]