Talk:Long and short scales

Population numbers
Using the most recent numbers in the Wikipedia articles on each country, I've compiled the following. Of course, most totals are at best correct to nearest million only.

Australia.... 21 855 016 Hong Kong	   7 008 900 Ireland Rep	   4 422 100 New Zealand	   4 315 800 Phillipines.. 91 983 000 Singapore.. 4 737 000 UK............ 61 113 205 USA.......... 307 293 000 English language-speaking countries and regions, total 502 728 021

Brazil........ 191 241 714 Bulgaria..... 7 605 551 Estonia..... 1 340 415 Indonesia... 229 965 000 Iran........... 74 196 000 Israel......... 7 411 000 Latvia........ 2 231 503 Lithuania... 3 555 179 Romania.... 21 498 616 Russia...... 142 008 838 Turkey....... 74 816 000 Wales....... 3 004 600	(counted in UK too) Other short scale languages and countries, total 758 874 416

Grece........ 11 257 285 Short scale use but with other terminology, total 11 257 285

Short scale countries, total 1 269 855 122	(counting Wales only once)

Andorra..... 84 484 Argentina... 40 482 000 Austria...... 8 356 707 Belgium..... 10 665 867 Bosnia+Herz	   4 613 414 Chile......... 16 928 873 Colombia... 44 982 970 Costa Rica	   4 509 290 Croatia...... 4 489 409 Czech Rep	  10 476 543 Denmark... 5 519 441 Dominican Rep	  10 090 000 Ecuador.... 13 625 000 El Salvador	   5 744 113 Finland...... 5 342 344 France...... 64 303 482 Germany... 82 060 000 Guatemala. 14 000 000 Hungary.... 10 020 000 Iceland...... 319 756 Italy.......... 60 088 880 Liechtenstein	      35 446 Luxembourg	     493 500 Mexico...... 111 211 789 Monaco..... 32 965 Netherlands	  16 500 156 Norway...... 4 833 665 Paraguay... 6 349 000 Peru.......... 29 132 013 Poland...... 38 130 302 Portugal.... 10 707 924 Serbia....... 7 365 507 Slovakia.... 5 379 455 Slovenia.... 2 053 355 Spain........ 46 661 950 Sweden..... 9 236 872 Switzerland	   7 739 100 Uruguay.... 3 361 000 Venezuela. 26 814 843 Long scale countries, total 742 741 415

Canada..... 33 766 000 Puerto Rico	   3 994 259	(counted in USA too) South Africa	  49 320 000 Both long and short scales countries, total 87 080 259

Long or short scales countries, total 2 098 687 137	(counting Puerto Rico only once)

People's China	1 345 751 000 India.......... 1 198 003 000 Pakistan.... 180 808 000 Bangladesh	 162 221 000 Nepal........ 29 331 000 Burma....... 50 020 000 Japan........ 127 590 000 South Korea	  48 379 392 North Korea	  23 906 000 Neither short nor long scale countries, total 3 166 009 392

Total population accounted for 5 261 691 929

Total world population 6 781 000 000

Population unaccounted for 1 519 308 071

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Noe (talk • contribs) 2 September 2009‎

Thousands separators
Somebody needs to change the thousands separators to conform with ISO-Standard. 2001:2043:7C4E:8200:548D:A650:22ED:4ECE (talk) 07:07, 29 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Per wp:DIGITS, e.g. 1,000,000 is fine (as is 1 000 000, or rather 1 000  000, where the latter is written wit the "gaps" construct). Nø (talk) 18:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)