Geography

Which six countries hold half the world’s population?


As of this month, the world’s population is now 7.2 billion, according to the United Nations, which celebrated World Population day
(2014). According to U.N. data, half of the people around the globe (3.6 billion) live in just a half-dozen countries. China has the world’s largest population (1.4 billion), followed by India (1.3 billion). The next most-populous nations – the United States, Indonesia, Brazil and Pakistan – combined have less than 1 billion people.
Information taken from: www.google.com