Top 10 de­mo­graph­ics facts

42%. About 42% of all Jews reside in Israel and about 42% reside in the United States and Canada, with most of the remainder living mostly in Europe.

Africa. Most African countries have the annual population growth rate in excess of 2%. In addition, there is a high proportion of younger people within the Africa population as a whole, with reports that 41% of the African population are under the age of 15. The population of Africa is currently projected to quadruple in just 90 years, with a growth rate that will make Africa more important than ever to the global economy.

60%. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following • 60 Asians • 12 Europeans • 13Africans • 9 Latin Americans/Caribbeans • 5 North Americans • 1 Oceanian

France has the largest number of Jews in Europe at about 480,000 Jews who are mainly found in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Toulouse regions. French Jews suffered anti-Semitism, but most of them survived the Holocaust. Jews later migrated to France from French colonies of the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 19th century. Currently, the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews are the majority.

Indonesia has 237 million inhabitants. This is more than Brazil (201M), Pakistan (184M), Nigeria (173M), Bangladesh (152M), Russia (143M) and Japan (127M)

Egypt. With 90M inhabitants, Egypt is by far the most populous Arab country. The population of Algeria is 38M, Iraq 35M, Sudan 35M, Morocco 32M, and Saudi Arabia 31M.

Colombia. The population of Colombia (47M) is larger than Argentina (41M), Peru (30M) and Venezuela (30M)

Bhutan has transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a multi-party democracy. The development of Bhutanese democracy has been marked by the active encouragement and participation of reigning Bhutanese monarchs since the 1950s, beginning with legal reforms such as the abolition of slavery, and culminating in the enactment of Bhutan's Constitution. The first democratic elections in Bhutan began in 2007, and all levels of government had been democratically elected by 2011. These elections included Bhutan's first ever partisan National Assembly election.

Sweden. Nordic nations are small, and even the largest, Sweden (9.6 million), is less populous than Greece, Belgium or Portugal. Finland, Denmark and Norway all have between 5 and 6 million inhabitants.

Monaco, one of the world's smallest countries, is also second most densely populated country in the world. It has a population density of 43,830 people per square mile (16,923 per square kilometer). As Macau is technically not an independent country, Monaco can be considered the world's most densely populated country.