Comment on U.S. and World Population ClockComments−D9u12yI see a discrepancy between the listing of the 10 most populous nations, and the counter...http://i.imgur.com/Jm9uQSF.png 3. United States 318,892,103But the counter for the USA (as I write this) says: 317,760,552.−itafroma12yThe data for the top 10 countries are being pulled from the Census Bureau's International Database. Here's the US data: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi...There, you can see 2014's mid-year population is identical to the top 10 chart.So 318,892,103 is the estimated mid-year population for 2014 (July 1), whereas 317,760,552 is the estimated population as of today (March 27).
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I see a discrepancy between the listing of the 10 most populous nations, and the counter...
http://i.imgur.com/Jm9uQSF.png 3. United States 318,892,103
But the counter for the USA (as I write this) says: 317,760,552.
The data for the top 10 countries are being pulled from the Census Bureau's International Database. Here's the US data: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi...
There, you can see 2014's mid-year population is identical to the top 10 chart.
So 318,892,103 is the estimated mid-year population for 2014 (July 1), whereas 317,760,552 is the estimated population as of today (March 27).