[D9u]

I see a discrepancy between the listing of the 10 most populous nations, and the counter...

http://i.imgur.com/Jm9uQSF.png 3. United States 318,892,103

But the counter for the USA (as I write this) says: 317,760,552.

[itafroma]

The data for the top 10 countries are being pulled from the Census Bureau's International Database. Here's the US data: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi...

There, you can see 2014's mid-year population is identical to the top 10 chart.

So 318,892,103 is the estimated mid-year population for 2014 (July 1), whereas 317,760,552 is the estimated population as of today (March 27).