dougms t1_j8moge5 wrote on February 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM Reply to India, soon world's most populous nation, doesn't know how many people it has by Icewear_Daddy Tracking populations is difficult. Even in the US, our census is only as accurate as the people reporting their households. There will always be people missed or under reported. Either ignoring the census, off grid or intentionally ignoring it. We probably do pretty good, but who knows the actual number. Permalink 85
dougms t1_j8moge5 wrote
Reply to India, soon world's most populous nation, doesn't know how many people it has by Icewear_Daddy
Tracking populations is difficult.
Even in the US, our census is only as accurate as the people reporting their households.
There will always be people missed or under reported. Either ignoring the census, off grid or intentionally ignoring it.
We probably do pretty good, but who knows the actual number.