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How official population estimates changed between releases.

Compare the same 2023 population estimate across two archived World Bank WDI publications: 28 January 2025 and 2 July 2025. Every country page includes exact values, provenance and JSON/CSV exports.

15 VERIFIED COUNTRY COMPARISONS · 5 REVISED · 10 UNCHANGED

What the archived releases actually changed

LARGEST RELATIVE REVISION

Germany

83,280,000 → 83,901,923

+621,923 people · +0.75%

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LARGEST ABSOLUTE REVISION

United States

334,914,895 → 336,806,231

+1,891,336 people · +0.56%

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DOWNWARD REVISIONS

Canada & Australia

Canada: −14,277 (−0.04%). Australia: −6,171 (−0.02%).

The comparison preserves negative revisions instead of treating every change as growth.

VERIFIED · NO CHANGE

10 of 15 countries

Ten country estimates are identical in both vintages. A zero revision is evidence too: the pipeline does not manufacture a discovery where none exists.

What changed?

All 15 verified countries in one crawlable comparison

The values below are rendered directly in the HTML from the same verified evidence files used by the country pages. JavaScript only changes sort order; the evidence remains readable and indexable without it.

5 estimates were revised: 3 upward and 2 downward. Germany had the largest relative revision (+0.75%); the United States had the largest absolute revision (+1,891,336).

CountryJan 2025 releaseJul 2025 releaseRevisionRevision %
Germany83,280,00083,901,923+621,923+0.75%
United States334,914,895336,806,231+1,891,336+0.56%
United Kingdom68,350,00068,492,000+142,000+0.21%
Canada40,097,76140,083,484−14,277−0.04%
Australia26,658,94826,652,777−6,171−0.02%
Brazil211,140,729211,140,72900.00%
China1,410,710,0001,410,710,00000.00%
France68,287,48768,287,48700.00%
India1,438,069,5961,438,069,59600.00%
Indonesia281,190,067281,190,06700.00%
Italy58,993,47558,993,47500.00%
Japan124,516,650124,516,65000.00%
Korea, Rep.51,712,61951,712,61900.00%
Mexico129,739,759129,739,75900.00%
Spain48,347,91048,347,91000.00%

Source vintages: World Bank WDI archive releases dated 28 Jan 2025 and 2 Jul 2025. Reference year: 2023. Revision ≠ population growth.

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How to read this evidence

Revision ≠ growth

We compare two publications of the same reference-year estimate. The difference is a revision to published data, not population change between publication dates.

Zero is informative

If both vintages contain the same value, we report no revision rather than inventing a discovery.

Reproducible

Each route includes readable HTML plus JSON and CSV with exact archived source URLs.