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Australia has less than 1% of the world population? Edit: yep, around 0.3%
by plasticchris 4y ago
Australia has less than 1% of the world population? Edit: yep, around 0.3%
- Izikiel43 4y agoYes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%
- greenpeas 4y agoLess than two "australias" away from 8 billion now. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
- goatlover 4y agoCloser to 8 billion now. 7.753 according to google.
- avalys 4y agoHoly crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
- SamBam 4y agoAn order of magnitude! That would be imagining that Australia has >200 million people. Given that the US has a little more than 300 million, well... No, they aren't comparable. Australia by an large is an inhospitable island with only a few pockets of population.
- CodeSgt 4y agoI'm pretty sure NYC has a population of like 7 or 8 million, about a third of Australias.
- tempestn 4y agoDepends where you draw the line. The 5 boroughs alone is about 8M, but the broader metropolitan area is something like 20. (And even beyond that it's still pretty densely populated compared to most places.)
- hackernewds 4y agoThe broader metropolitan is not usually what people consider as NYC. New York state maybe
- Dylan16807 4y agoThe broader area is more like that little corner of the state plus half of New Jersey.
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- prpl 4y agoNew York MSA is 20M, CSA is 23M
- quickthrower2 4y agoNYC = NSW approx then. Lol and I think Sydney is getting “too busy”
- tempestn 4y agoAn order of magnitude higher and it'd be of similar magnitude to the entire USA. I tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) to Canada. Similar population and standard of living on a similarly large but largely inhospitable landmass.
- cecilpl2 4y agoAustralia is basically Hot Canada.
- 3pt14159 4y agoAustralia: Our brother to the hot south with more sex appeal and far less marriage material.
- adra 4y agoI was just quoted a stat that said boomer retirees have sex way more frequently than any of their younger cohorts. So weird and depressing if true.
- codeyperson 4y agoMaybe single people are less likely to retire
- BurningFrog 4y agoTravelling there it felt like Big California.
- joveian 4y agoExcept that Canada is just cold while Australia has the whole evolutionary arms race thing going on.
- spiralx 4y agoAustralia has almost everything wrong you can think of climate-wise: cold Antarctic currents hitting the west coast causing dry winds with little moisture, on the east coast there's a narrow strip between the coast and the long N-S mountains that gets moisture, but even then the mountains are barely high enough to trap winds and cause rainfall. The very north gets monsoons, the inland is a baking desert and only the very south is temperate. If you want an idea of scale, there's a single cattle farm in Australia operated by less than a dozen people that is larger than Texas.
- Sharlin 4y agoTo a good approximation Australia is a desert surrounded by a narrow, narrow strip of livable land. It would be pretty remarkable if it had a population close to that of the US.
- dylan604 4y agoAustralia also happens to have the seemingly same amount of useable land space as NYC.
- yesenadam 4y agoA few years ago I wanted to make my movie-watching more representative of relative populations of countries, so I made this list. Most strikingly, about 4 movies in each 100 I watch should be from USA. Percentage of world population: China 18.5 - India 17.7 - USA 4.25 - Indonesia 3.5 - Pakistan 2.8 - Brazil 2.7 - Nigeria 2.6 - Bangladesh 2.1 - Russia 1.9 - Mexico 1.65 - Japan 1.6 - Ethiopia 1.5 - Philippines 1.4 - Egypt 1.3 - Vietnam 1.25 - DR Congo 1 - Turkey 1 - Iran 1 - Germany 1 - Thailand 0.9 - UK 0.9 - France 0.8 - Italy 0.8 - Tanzania 0.8 - South Africa 0.8 - Myanmar 0.7 - Kenya, South Korea, Colombia 0.6 - Spain, Uganda, Argentina, Algeria, Sudan, Ukraine 0.6 - Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Canada, Morocco, Saudi Arabia 0.5 It would be fascinating to ask people around the world - "What percentage of the world's population lives in your country?"
- keithnz 4y agoInterestingly asking wolfram alpha to calculate it, you get a cool little graph showing a history.... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=population+of+new+zealand+%2F+population+of+the+world*100 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=population+of+new+zeala...