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A lot of population numbers are fake

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* Issue #780 by @hnl [learn]

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* A lot of population numbers are fake

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* Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population - Nature Communications

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* Researcher questions China's population data, says it may be lower

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* 1937 Soviet census - Wikipedia

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* The Fix: We still really don’t know PNG

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* FAQs - The World Factbook

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