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World Population in 2022

There are 7,9 billion people in the world based on the latest United Nations data from 2022.

China and India vastly exceed others in terms of number of population in 2022. The population of China and India combined make up 35% of the global population. This means that for every ten people in the world right now, three of them are either Chinese or Indian.

Figure 1: Proportion of World Population in Continents in 2022

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Twitter Trending Topic Daily Brief 2022-04-02

We track Twitter trending topics daily. Areas or countries we cover are Worldwide, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, India, Russia, Indonesia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea. For detailed information, please visit Twitter Trending Topic Monitor.

Here is the report for 2th April 2022. This report is based on data collected on 2th April 2022, 6 pm GMT+7.

WORLDWIDE

The top rank in the Worldwide trending topics consists of Japanese characters. The other trennding topics are quite common in countries, namely the topics of April Fools and Jungkook.

AUSTRALIA

Apart from the currently common trending topics lik April Fools, Jungkook, and Harry Styles, the Australian trending topics also contains “Disney”.

FRANCE

The trending topics are almost the same with other countries, i.e. April Fools, Jungkook, Harry Styles. Qatar topic also appear, maybe pertaining to upcoming soccer World Cup in Qatar.

GERMANY

April April topic significantly dominate German trending topics. This may pertain to a 1935 German comedy film with the same name that has its popularity going up with the new month of April.

INDIA

Indian trending topics are more similar to Indonesian trending topics like the April Fools and Jungkook topics.

INDONESIA

The Indonesian trending topics are also dominated by entertainment topics, but the keywords are more varied. April Fools is in the top rank. K-Pop topics like Jungkook, Kim Taehyung, also other entertainment topics like Cathy Doll and Thai topic are among the top ranks.

JAPAN

RUSSIA

Unlike in many other countries, the trending topics here are dominated by topics not about entertainment. The news topic significantly dominate the trending topics. Ukraine and NFT topics follow. Only Jungkook topic appear high in the rank.

SINGAPORE

Almost similar to other countries, the trending topics in Singapore are April Fools, Jungkook, and Ramadan.

SOUTH KOREA

April Fools topic is on the top rank in the trending topic.

UNITED KINGDOM

The top trending topics are April Fools and entertainment topics such as K-Pop star Jungkook and Harry Styles and Pokemon. Argentina topic appears, possibly regarding ongoing World Cup qualifier soccer competition. Trans Day of Visibility topic reached its peak in the past but still appear here.

UNITED STATES

The trending topics are dominated by April Fools topic and entertainment topics. The dominant entertainment topics are Jungkook and Harry Styles. Apart from that, Ramadan is also trending, pertaining to the coming fasting month for moslems. Ethiopia appear in trending topic also. This topic may pertain recent news about United Nations convoy entering Tigray, Ethiopia for investigating and giving aid amid war there.

Twitter Trending Topic Daily Brief 2022-04-01

We track Twitter trending topics daily. Areas or countries we cover are Worldwide, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, India, Russia, Indonesia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea. For detailed information, please visit Twitter Trending Topic Monitor.

Here is the report for 1th April 2022. This report is based on data collected on 1th April 2022, 12 pm GMT+7.

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Twitter Trending Topic in 3-Minute Brief | 2022-03-25

We track Twitter trending topics in worldwide scope and in several countries three to four times daily. Here is what we found.

  • Worldwide

In the worldwide category, the World Cup Qualifiers dominate. especially about South American teams, namely Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia. Other topics ini this category are about Doja Cat (an American rapper), Clarence Thomas (a member of American Supreme Court, posibly about his recent hospitalization and about his wife, Ginni Thomas), Ginni Thomas (about her alleged conversation with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn the recent U.S. election result).

  • United States

The top trending topic for the United States are about similar to the worldwide category.

  • United Kingdom

The top trending topics for U.K. are the World Cup Qualifiers, especially regarding the teams Italy, Colombia, Portugal. The topic ‘Macron’ was conversations about the statements of Emanuel Macron, the French president regarding Ukraine. ‘Joker’ topic surfaced here after the release of the recent Batman movie deleted scenes.

  • South Korea
  • Singapore

The ‘Google’ topic was probably about the recent banning of Google News by the Russian government. ‘Telegram’ is a messaging app. The topic may arise because of the recent mention of Telegram as the platform for information about Ukraine – Russia conflict. “Our Clover Mashiho day” was probably pertains to birthday of a K-Pop star. Topic ‘Metaverse’ also surfaced in yesterday’s trending topic.

  • Russia

The topic ‘Biden’ may arose due to the recent statement by Biden regarding Russia’s involvement in G20. The ‘Google’ topics was probably surfaced due to the recent banning of Google News by Russia. ‘Whitelist’ may pertain to the buying NFT or the process to bypassing restriction of a banned application.

  • Japan
  • Indonesia

The recent top trending topics in Indonesia pertains to Korean entertainment, namely K-Pop and possibly K-Drama also.

  • India

The recent top trending topics in India are mostly about entertainment.’hobi’ is a Korean celebrity. ‘RRR Movie’ is an upcoming Indian movie. The ‘World Cup’, ‘Italy’, ‘Portugal’ topics are about World Cup Qualifiers soccer matches.

  • Germany
  • France

The top trending topics in France are mostly about World Cup and the Batman Movie, especially the Joker character. However, there is also a hashtag #McKinseyGate which is about a possible scandal of ties between French president Macron and U.S. consulting company McKinsey.

  • Australia

The recent trending topics for Australia was about sports and entertainment, namely ‘hobi’ (a Korean celebrity), ‘Japan’ and ‘Italy’ (regarding their respective soccer team in World Cup qualifier), and ‘Joker’ (regarding recent release of deleted scenes of Batman movie).s