World Population
Theodonesia
24-02-2005, 06:04
I was wondering how one might possibly go about measuring the population of the NationStates world. When last I checked, 124705 nations were listed in the current UN rankings (for healthiest). Of course, the populations of the nations in the NationStates world vary widely: many new nations that exist now but will soon be forgotten have populations of <50 million, middle-sized nations like ours have populations in the 1 and 2 billions, and the oldest nations have populations up to 4 billion or so.
One idea I had would be to take a statistical sample of the nations in NationStates, find the average population, and multiply by the number of nations. The problem here lies in actually taking the sample: clicking enough nations and gathering their population data would be time-consuming, and one would have trouble selecting a random assortment of nations.
Questions? Comments? Most importantly, good ideas? I think it really would be interesting to make an estimate at the world population.
Sllabecaps
24-02-2005, 06:08
Since it changes so dramatically day by day I would say it was impossible
Theodonesia
24-02-2005, 06:14
You're right... I also think that it would be entirely impossible to come up with a precise number for the world's population that would be valid for more than maybe a day. But I was thinking of something closer to an estimate, with few enough significant figures as to not be affected by the day-to-day fluctuations in population.
If the world population were, say, 1 quadrillion, then an extra nation of 5 million here or there would make very little difference.
Sllabecaps
24-02-2005, 06:16
ya I guess but im just like to have pop close as possiable so I would proiblt try to program a bot too look thore all the nations and see how mush pop they have and report it back.
Serconea
24-02-2005, 14:31
A total world population thing would be a good idea. Possible added feature of NS.
With 124705 nations, World population is a minimum of 623,525 million. World population must be at least a trillion then.
Nitpicker
24-02-2005, 16:07
127,095 nations now :p
The number of new nations is very good. :)
Just wait the second update of the day though... It's extremely hard to give even a day's average.
I asked this question some time ago in Technical...the answer I got was in the area of 71 trillion.
And it actually doesn't shift that much - the number of dying nations counterbalances the number of new nations.
Santa Barbara
24-02-2005, 23:50
An easier way would be just to have everyone post their NS population on this thread and we can count them all up.
I'll start. I have 4.576 billion.
Hockey Canada
25-02-2005, 00:18
Based on my count, the population is around 63,547,500,000,000
Trying to get everyone to post here would not work.
Monte Ozarka
25-02-2005, 08:32
Trying to get everyone to post here would not work.
Yeah, and if you're like me and you have a whole bunch of puppets lying around, you're not gonna want to go and add them all up. :P
However, I'd guesstimate ~9-10 billion for all my nations, combined.