Hi Markus,

Fun! Here's the same query with one additional caveat: it only counts
people known to have been born since 1900.

http://tinyurl.com/jgzxvlq

This removes anyone who is definitely dead (but doesn't have a birth
date), but also cuts out anyone who is alive but where we don't know
either a birth or death date. So it's a more conservative estimate.
(It's a pity WD can't say "dates unknown, but definitely alive"...)

Orders are still much the same, but numbers return drop substantially
- from 21k to 15k for Finland, but only 27k to 25k for Sweden. It
seems Finland has more people, but Sweden has better-documented ones
:-)

A.


On 4 June 2016 at 00:04, Markus Kroetzsch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a little fun query to show the relative prominence of several
> countries' populations on Wikidata [1]:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/zlq9bfv
>
> Doing this for all countries (not just for EU countries) times out, but you
> can get individual numbers for each country using BIND, as for the US:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/huouz39
>
> (576 Wikidata people per million in habitants) or for China (6 Wikidata
> people per million in habitants). May serve to show some regional biases but
> also some natural effects.
>
> Interestingly, it seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current
> population of Finland on Wikidata.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
> [1]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples#Wikidata_people_per_million_inhabitants_for_all_EU_countries
>
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