Sunday, November 18, 2007

population pop quiz

i often goof population numbers. let's see what you know about our world's population in 3 quick questions.

1. world population?

2. united states population?

3. in order, list the five most populated countries (hint, pakistan is the 6th largest country with 165 million people).

---
---
---
---
---
---
---

answers (all rough estimates):

1. 6.6 billion

2. 301 million

3. china (1.3b), india (1.1b), the united states (301m), indonesia (234m) , & brazil (188m)

these are good numbers to pay attention to.

BK

No comments: