Counting down

[johan]

It's fascinating, really. Statistically, the Swedish population grows by roughly one person every fifteen minutes. Based on this fact, the Swedish National Bureau of Statistics has predicted that today is the day when the population will reach nine million. The counting down can be seen "live" here: Befolkningsklocka.

Comments

[awahlbom.livejournal.com]

It seems that Safari can't handle the page properly. I am told that we are now 1,445,215 Swedes. (Internet Explorer returns the more sensible result of 8,999,992.)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Huh. We appear to be at roughly the same population density. (Very roughly.)

Colorado
269,998 sq km
4,301,261 people (2000)

Sweden
449,964 sq km
9,000,000 people

[jophan.livejournal.com]

That was actually my impression of Colorado, that it has about the sam population density as Sweden, but I didn't know that the impression was correct. Interesting. I assume we have similar climates as well.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Not even close to the same climate I think. Denver gets less than 32 cm of rain in the average year. Most of Colorado is rather dry, except the mountains. Most of the water for the state falls there in the form of snow.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Yep, you're right. Colorado is a lot drier. Temperatures might be more similar, though.

[grubi.livejournal.com]

Too many Swedes! Agh! :-)

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Now you're starting to sound like a Norwegian guy I know! :)

Any opinions on the number of people in Colorado? :-p

[grubi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they need to start voting Democrat.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Don't you all? I shudder at the thought of another four neocon years...