How Do You Find Census Data On World Population?
China continues to reign as the world’s most populous country with a population of 1,338,612,968. India follows next with a close count of 1,156,897,766 and then the United States with 307,212,123. The world is now 6,780,445,823 richer in terms of human capital. And this exponential growth in population will reach 9 billion in 2050. Don’t you ever wonder how the world gets to know such tremendous information? Or how we are able to know the total population on Earth? Someone might answer the television or the Internet. But there has to be a root source for all of that data. The simple answer is the US Census Bureau International Data Base or IDB. After it started providing the world with census data and demographic projections in the 1960s, the US Census Bureau International Data Base released its first comprehensive population report in the 1980s with over 200 countries involved. It gathers data based on the de facto population of the world. This means the Census Bureau considers every
