You are partially misreading the graph, although with their poor presentation I can understand why. Each bar on the graph looks to be a certain population coun

You are partially misreading the graph, although with their poor presentation I can understand why. Each bar on the graph looks to be a certain population count/census, and presumably they were conducted less often in the first part of the century. If you mouse over the bars on the graph they tell you what year they were conducted in. ----------- The point here, is that in spite of the X-Axis being labeled as 1901-2018 (which would make you think the bars are even time intervals), they are not. The population peak, while nearly at the left side is actually in 1951 according to the mouseover text. So the 1/3rd of 1950s population claim is accurate. ---------- > and though it rallied again to near 16th century levels in the 1970s, today there are just one third as many Venetians as 50 years ago. I suspect this may be typo, as if you flip the 5 and 7 it would be about accurate. "...in the 1950s, today there are just one third as many Venetians as 70 years ago." ----------- I agree that none of this inspires particular confidence in their editing or fact-checking.