Things that have to do with least 100 million people or thereabouts (using the latest figures from 2009 to 2013 unless otherwise noted; m is for million):
world: 7,058m (population)
- continents
- Eurasia: 4,956m
- Asia: 4,216m
- West Asia: 238m
- South Asia: 1,800m
- South East Asia: 602m
- East Asia: 1,588m
- North Asia (Russia): 143m
- Europe: 740m
- Asia: 4,216m
- Africa: 1,072m
- Americas: 942m
- North America: 546m
- South America: 396m
- Eurasia: 4,956m
- islands
- Java: 133m
- Honshu: 104m
- white people: 1,171m
- Europe: 691m
- diaspora: 480m (41%)
- USA: 224m
- black people: 1,048m
- Africa: 860m
- diaspora: 188m (18%)
- countries / states, provinces (populations)
- historical states (at peak):
- British Empire: 458m (1938)
- Soviet Union: 293m (1991)
- Tsarist Russia: 176m (1913)
- Mogul Empire: 175m (1700)
- Japanese Empire: 135m (1938)
- French Empire: 131m (1950)
- Northern Song Dynasty 123m (1100)
- Mongol Empire: 110m (1200s)
- cities: –
- birth years: at least 100m have been born every year since about 1960
- death years: –
- hospital beds: –
- war dead: –
- genocides: –
- democides: –
- natural disasters: –
- epidemics:
- Black Death: 100m (1338-1351)
- prisoners: –
- grains (those fed by):
- rice, maize, wheat: > 4,000m
- cassava: 500m
- language families, languages (native speakers)
- Indo-European: 3,200m
- Spanish: 387m
- English: 365m
- Hindi: 295m
- Portuguese: 204m
- Bengali: 202m
- Russian: 160m
- Sino-Tibetan: 1,600m
- Mandarin: 935m
- Niger-Congo: 450m
- Afro-Asiatic: 430m
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- Arabic: 280m
- Austronesian: 420m
- Altaic: 310m
- Japanese: 127m
- Dravidian: 260m
- Austroasiatic: 120m
- Indo-European: 3,200m
- religions, sects (followers)
- books (copies)
- Bible
- Koran
- Bhagavad Gita *
- Communist Manifesto
- Quotations from Chairman Mao
- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities: 200m *
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: 150m
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Le Petit Prince: 140m
- Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None: 100m
- Cao Xueqin: Dream of the Red Chamber: 100m *
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit: 100m
- * Books I have not read.
- magazines (monthly circulation): –
- songs (copies sold): –
- films (tickets sold)
- Gone with the Wind: 202m
- Star Wars: 178m
- The Sound of Music: 142m
- E.T.: 142m
- Titanic: 135m
- The Ten Commandments: 131m
- Jaws: 128m
- Doctor Zhivago: 124m *
- The Exorcist: 111m *
- Snow White: 109m
- * Films I have not seen.
- The top Bollywood film of all time, “Gadar” (2001), sold 40m tickets.
- images (seen by):
- Bliss: 1,000m (pictured above)
- Broadway shows: –
- television households: 1,217m (2009)
- television broadcasts:
- Olympics, opening ceremony: 984m (2008)
- Cricket World Cup final: 400m (2011)
- FIFA World Cup Final 260m (2006)
- First moon walk: 530m (1969)
- Wedding of Prince William: 161m (2011)
- Last episode of “M*A*S*H”: 126m (1983)
- Eurovision Song Contest: 100m to 600m
- television broadcasts:
- machines:
- mobile phones: 6,000m
- desktop computers: 1,700m (2013, est.)
- televisions: > 1,217m
- landline telephones: 1,200m
- cars: 1,015m (2010)
- rice cookers: 450m ?
- Internet: 2,100m users
- websites (unique monthly visitors, 2013)
- Google: 1,000m
- YouTube: 900m
- Facebook: 800m
- Yahoo!: 750m
- Amazon: 500m
- Baidu – Chinese search engine
- Wikipedia: 400m
- MSN: 300m
- Bing: 290m – US search engine
- eBay: 275m
- Twitter: 250m
- Taobao
- Sina Corp
- WordPress: 225m
- LinkedIn: 200m
- Daily Mail: 190m – British newspaper
- Microsoft: 175m
- Ask: 150m
- Google+: 150m
- Pinterest: 141m
- Yandex – Russian search engine
- hao123.com
- VKontakte
- NetEase
- Tumblr: 125m
– Abagond, 2013.
See also:
This is an obscure piece of knowledge, but greatly appreciated.
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slow day eh abagond.
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ugh windows xp slow arse. this pic definitely reminds me of that slow operating system.
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I’m surprised that Craigslist didn’t make the million cut under websites.
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Interesting data. I’m surprised you’ve never seen ‘The Exorcist’! Speaking of which, I’ve always wondered why William Peter Blatty chose to change the possessed child from male to female.
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I am on the island of Java today. 135 million people in an area smaller than New York State. Good grief!
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^^ Wow! 😀
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@Bulanik
Jawa is roughly the area of England (so, excluding Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland), but now has about 140 million people (compared to England’s 53m). Alabama is roughly the same size with less than 5m.
Uttar Pradesh would have to double in population to have the density of Jawa. Can you imagine how crowded this island is? scary.
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Just feels like so much traffic and jumbled settlement over a large area — not a pleasant environment. Hong Kong feels very open and spacious in comparison.
And no, people take their time here. There is much less sense of urgency compared to places like New York – life in the fast lane!
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@ Jefe, as an “emerging market”, how goes Indonesia — from what you’ve seen?
The talk among potential exporters here is that the country’s potential as a high-growth market is impressive BUT actually hard to forecast because even though there’s a property boom underway, the news also says parts of Jakarta are sinking below sea level — which points to huge infrastructure gaps.
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@ Jefe, countries like Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico (and Turkey) — if Abagond’s demographics data is anything to go by — could form probably the most fastest growing of trade blocs. Forging trade links between disparate nations is a highly complex and difficult thing to do.
I wonder how it’s done between smallish Western European nations and much larger and very quick growing populations on the either side of the world?
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@ Jefe — whilst scrolling through those 4 economies, it seems they are called the MINT countries.
BBC Radio 4 have featured them in a programme called the “MINT: The Next Economic Giants”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nrh15/episodes/guide#p01nrh17
The presenter Jim O’Neill seems to be counselling the Western world to surrender its dominance of global economic control because that is the only path to improved global decision-making. If not, then what?
He says the idea has traditionally been for that others should do it “our way”, but he gives one example, among others, of Turkish Airways, which flies to more places in the world than any other airline. That says a lot about a country’s trade ties and airline infrastructure and couldn’t there be something to learn from that?
(Only the Mexico episode seems to be playable right now.)
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@Bulanik,
Sorry, I am in a spot with very unreliable wifi. I will wait to check out your links when I get back home next week.
Indonesia has a large young population, but still has a way to go for infrastructure. It is spread out over several hundred islands and it is not easy to get around. But over 60% of the population lives in one island – Java, which is about the size of England. But that is a traffic nightmare. No good transportation network. Expect to spend 1-2 hours to get to anywhere in the metro area. It is like a solid traffic jam 5am to 12 midnight every day.
Indonesia has become a bit more friendly with China in the past several years. This contrasts with their sordid relationship in the prior decades.
I will read up more on Jakarta’s sinking infrastructure, as well as the future of MINT.
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@ Jefe, many thanks.
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