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A lot of population numbers are fake 2026 Jan 29    davidoks.blog
Linked is a compelling argument that we don't really know how many people there are in the world. Countries with weak central governments, difficult terrain, and politicized incentives to adjust population numbers make for wildly unreliable population counts. Some countries don't even attempt to collect census data and yet report population numbers anyway.

The map continues to not be the territory.
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