Orders of magnitude (population)
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To help compare different countries, cities, etc., we list here human populations in scientific notation.
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[edit] 1 E1 people
- 12 -- number of astronauts who have walked on the Moon's surface
- 47 -- population of Pitcairn Island
[edit] 1 E2 people
- 150 -- The book The Tipping Point theorizes that this is the maximum size of any close-knit human population, such as a hunter-gatherer tribe or military company.
- 921 -- population of Vatican City (2005)
[edit] 1 E3 people
- 1,503 -- death toll from sinking of the RMS Titanic
- 1,504 -- population of Tombstone, Arizona
- 2,986 -- death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 5,680 -- air and sea complement of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
[edit] 1 E4 people
- 23,676 -- population of Stratford-upon-Avon (2001)
- 32,528 -- population of Liechtenstein (2004)
- 45,049 -- population of Charlottesville, Virginia
- 53,011 -- population of Cheyenne, Wyoming
- 64,482 -- population of Bermuda (2003)
- 86,102 -- population of Toowoomba, Queensland (2001 Census) Australia's second largest inland city.
[edit] 1 E5 people
- 194,665 -- metropolitan area of Tuscaloosa, Alabama (2000)
- 227,818 -- Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2000)
- 235,932 -- metropolitan area of Roanoke, Virginia (2000)
- 240,000 -- approx. killed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
- 338,200 -- London Borough of Croydon (1998) the most populous London Borough
- >400,000 -- Estimated attendance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
- 442,972 -- Luxembourg (2004)
- 478,400 -- Tasmania, Australia (2003)
- 656,000 -- Austin, Texas (2000)
- 675,000 -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2008)
- 745,000 -- number of children that die each year from measles (2001 WHO estimate)
[edit] 1 E6 people
- 2,575,768 -- population of the English county of the West Midlands
- 4,105,668 -- population of New Zealand (Oct 2005 estimate)
- 5,700,000 -- approximate population of metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts
[edit] 1 E7 people
- 11,200,000: Approximate population of Moscow, Russia
- 16,000,000: Approximate population of the Netherlands
- 21,000,000: Approximate population of Australia (June 2007 Estimate)
- 33,000,000: Approximate population of Canada
- 60,000,000: Number of people who died in World War II
[edit] 1 E8 people
- 106,202,903 -- population of Mexico (January 2005 estimate)
- 143,420,309 -- population of Russia (January 2005 estimate)
- 295,734,134 -- population of the United States (January 2005 estimate)
[edit] 1 E9 people
- 1,080,264,388: population of India (January 2005 estimate)
- 1,306,313,816: population of People's Republic of China (January 2005 estimate)
- 6,355,543,400: Approximate population of Earth (January 2005 estimate)
[edit] 1 E11 people
- About 100,000,000,000: all modern humans ever born (since the prehistoric age)
