How is world population calculated? And how accurate is the number? Is it possible that the number can be entirely wrong?

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How is world population calculated? And how accurate is the number? Is it possible that the number can be entirely wrong?

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Regarding accuracy, population numbers are often at least as accurate as they need to be. For a family of 5 getting a non-exact value is a significant error, however, for a population of 1 million then getting an estimate wrong by 100 will most likely not change the decisions made based on said population estimate.

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