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> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq. More than any country in Europe. About 2/3 of Russia. According to
by zimpenfish 7mo ago
> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq. More than any country in Europe. About 2/3 of Russia.
According to [0], in 2025 Iran had 86M people. Ukraine had 29M (~33%), Germany (highest in Europe) had 83M (~96%, uh?), Iraq had 46M (~53%), and Russia had 146M (~168% / ~59% reversed).
Wildly, wildly wrong about Germany but not too far off the rest[1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
[1] Although if you include Turkey in "Europe", "more than any country in Europe" droops a little because Turkey's 86092168 (99.456%) is basically identical to Iran's 86563000 when it comes to projection and estimation errors.
- cherryteastain 7mo agoPresumably they meant WW2 Germany.
- jabron 7mo agoGermany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.
- lava_pidgeon 7mo agoIt was 78 Million https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Staat https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Staat
- jabron 6mo agoHuh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory. If you're interested: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansicht/57050/59/einzelseiten/nogridview?ht=56993&cHash=60a9e67d36fcdc0f5223450f274f6738 https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansicht/57050/59/einze...
- ap99 7mo ago[flagged]
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- tda 7mo agoI think the comparisons were referring to land area, but I agree this is not that clear from from the comment
- malfist 7mo ago> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq Sure, they're talking multiples of land area.
- zimpenfish 7mo ago> Sure, they're talking multiples of land area. But then don't say "people"? Because if you say "has N people" and then "more than 2x Y", no-one is going to go "yes, that's 2x land area" when it was NEVER MENTIONED IN ANY CONTEXT.
- malfist 7mo agoSorry, my post was sarcastic. If they were talking about land area, there was no context clues.
- zimpenfish 7mo agoI don't think they can be because "About 2/3 of Russia" -> Iran is (according to [0]) about 636k mi^2 whilst Russia is 6600k mi^2 or just over 10x the area. (Iran is 4.5x the land area of Germany, 2.7x Ukraine, 3.7x Iraq - sure "2x" works but it's out enough that it doesn't fit with the "land area" claim.) Also Denmark is in Europe and has a land area (including Greenland) 1.3x that of Iran which strictly breaks the "more than any country in Europe" claim. In summary, if it's about land area, it's absolute gibberish. If it's about population, it's mostly accurate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
- cineticdaffodil 7mo agoAlso half of the people in iran hate the government or even have a feud with it after it murderd their protesting relatives..