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5. What's up with the figures? 120.8m + 121m is about 240m.

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 11:59 PM

Dec 2019

There are some 325m people in the country.

What happened to the other 85m?

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What's up with the figures? 120.8m + 121m is about 240m. brush Dec 2019 #5

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