• Karna@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      To be fair here, Greece has much less population than India 🙂

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          10 months ago

          Percentage is not as easy or helpful to work with, when there are orders of magnitude difference between absolute numbers. It hides the absolute number difference for no other reason than unspoken lying of statistics.

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          10 months ago

          To put it in right context (relying on Wiki data for year 2021):

          Current population of Greece: 10,482,487 (~10.5 Million)

          Current population of India: 1,210,854,977 (~1.2 Billion)