Talk:List of countries by population (graphical)

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on August 10, 2005. The result of the discussion was Keep.

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[edit] EU etc.

Including the EU under the heading "list of countries by population" makes an extremely controversial assertion. I know there is probably no ill intent, and it can be solved by moving the page to Graphical list of countries and other entities by population, but the nomination for deletion instructions prohibit moving it at the moment. I will be voting keep however, so this can be sorted out if it survives. Osomec 15:39, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Best to remove any trans-national body, otherwise we'll have to add the UN, NATO etc. Let's wait for the creator's input though. - Randwicked 15:55, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

This simply uses the input from List of countries by population. Any accuracy disputes should be taken there. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 17:02, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

  • fair point... List of countries by population includes the EU, and explains that it is a "list of sovereign states and other territories by population". I take your point, that listing the EU under the heading of a list of countries could be controversial, but it is useful to include the info (for comparison), and changing the title could make it very long-winded... definitely do not remove the EU data from the charts though.... UkPaolo 19:37, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I don't see that this needs to be "controversial" at all - noone asserts that the EU (or Africa or Asia for that matter) is a country. They are presumably included because the information is likely to be useful or interesting to some readers, which is a perfectly good reason for the information to be there. In any case, whether to include them in this article or not is a matter of content and not factual accuracy, so I've removed the factual dispute tag. Enchanter 00:05, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

removed EU, North America and Oceania. EU is an organization NA and Oceania are regions.--Numerousfalx 23:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Why remove them? They're useful for comparisons. Besides, the article says "In the charts below, the world is shown in purple, continents are shown in green, countries are brown, and territories are gray." I'm reinserting them. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 13:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


No, we need to be consistent. The EU is not a country (see List of countries). If we include one international organisation we need to include them all. Removing EU until there is a stable consensus here. DSuser 19:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

There is definitely no consensus to remove the EU. It has stayed in this template, unchallenged for over a year. The EU is listed at List of countries by population, and this graph gets all its data from there. If you don't think the EU should be included, please bring it up there. – Quadell (talk) (random) 20:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Longevity is not reason for inclusion when the EU is quite clearly not a country. Fair enough, though; I'll go ahead and include the Commonwealth of Nations which is also on the List of countries by population. Please discuss any changes on the Talk page of that list. Cheers. DSuser 20:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Obvious errors in continent populations

The continental populations here (as well as the ones that were recently added to the non-graphical page) are obviously outdated and incorrect. USA+Mexico+Canada alone is over 100 million greater than "North America".

Again, this page uses the input from List of countries by population. Any accuracy disputes should be taken there. All numbers are sourced, but the source for continents is different than the source for countries. Also, Hawaii is part of the U.S., but not part of North America (not that that would account for a difference of 100 million though. . .) – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 20:24, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] France?

Which is the real France? The one that's more populous than the UK, or the other one? :-) Keep up the good work! Tonywalton

Looking at List of countries by population I suspect the smaller one of the two Frances is probably Italy. Tonywalton
Whoops! Thanks, I fixed it. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:58, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Warped maps?

Does anyone think it would be useful to go beyond charts and put up images like the ones from this page? I can't be sure of the accuracy of the maps, but the software for producing them seems to be free, so if we have the data it should be possible to generate them to check.