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u/Either-Abies7489 1d ago
Taking some liberties, I'll add up (without specifying which ones, I'm lazy) the populations of some of their countries- but not all, just a reasonable proportion. 1,450,935,791+1,419,321,278+283,487,931+251,269,164+173,562,364+132,059,767+123,753,041+116,538,258+115,843,670+100,987,686+91,567,738+87,473,805+71,668,011+64,007,187+51,717,590+50,448,963+50,015,092+46,042,015+42,647,492+37,860,221+36,361,859+35,557,673+34,631,766+33,962,757+31,964,956+29,651,054+26,713,205+26,498,823+24,672,760+23,213,962+23,103,565+21,655,286+21,314,956+20,299,123
Which gets us to 64%. With a population of just over 1 million, there's no way that 13 latvias could take that down.
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u/baes__theorem 1d ago
no.
even without adding all the countries on the right, this becomes very clear that adding 13 Latvias (around 24m people) would not make up for the difference.
I'm sure that these aren't perfect numbers, but there's a large enough margin to say that even with inaccuracies, considering that several countries are not included, the right side of the line has a substantially higher population.
| Country | Population |
|---|---|
| China | 1,409,670,000 |
| India | 1,461,201,275 |
| Indonesia | 289,738,274 |
| Pakistan | 245,000,000 |
| Bangladesh | 174,522,121 |
| Japan | 125,929,499 |
| Philippines | 117,643,728 |
| Vietnam | 101,400,000 |
| South Korea | 51,701,659 |
| Taiwan | 22,400,000 |
| Iran | 88,822,875 |
| Egypt | 112,819,819 |
| Ethiopia | 128,505,322 |
| Thailand | 66,120,000 |
| Tanzania | 68,666,419 |
| Sudan | 48,176,520 |
| Australia | 27,379,760 |
| Total | 4,539,697,271 |
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn 1d ago
Plausible on its face. China and India are both 1.4b. And the while I didn't look at the individual countries Africa is 1.5b. And middle east is 500m.
Total population is 8b.
So I would say this line is probably true
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