Have you ever wondered what the population in a county is at a specific time? Or have you ever wanted to calculate what the population of the country is going to be in, say, 3 minutes and 41 second?
Well, I don’t know about you, but I never have, up until a moment ago, when I encountered this “population clock”,
http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/population.htm
which applies to Canada only (being produced by the Statistics Canada), but I am sure there are similar things for most countries. In fact, from the moment I encountered it to the moment this post is being written, Canada’s population grew by 5 people! That’s five more mouths to feed! But, perhaps, that’s five more physicists, or engineers, or doctors, or may be teachers, mathematicians, firefighters, soldiers, who ever not? Or may be a bunch of high school dropouts, which still wouldn’t be worst case.
Of course, this clock applies to local time periods only, but it’s being updated sufficiently frequently, for they last updated it half a year ago. I mean there can’t be a dramatic change in population growth over such period, unless there’s sort of an unnatural reason for it, which would simply be a some kind of fluctuation.
Interesting :)
Posted by Nikita 