- Two major sources that assess and publish global population are : the United Nations and the U.S. Census Bureau
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- The United Nations Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs every two years calculates, updates, and publishes estimates of total population in its World Population Prospects series
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- These population estimates and projections provide the standard and consistent set of population figures that are used throughout the United Nations system
- Dependent territory also known as dependent area, or dependency or an external territory is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area
- Rank allocated to each country and dependencies are according to their population size by United Nations
- Dataset contains nine columns which hold information for each country and dependent territory
