By Lizzie Cranberry

On November 1^st, the world’s population officially reached the 7 billion mark. This week, we take a look at the data behind that figure. Who are the 7 billion? Where do most of them live? Which countries are growing the fastest, which are declining? And which of them are the happiest? Have more info you want to share? Please let us know and we’ll create some more data streams.

Click here if you want to know which are the most populated  (aka most crowded) countries.

And a chart to follow, showing which of the most crowded countries are growing the fastest:

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Meanwhile, you can check the top 10 countries with the fastest population growth.

How about the country with the most smiling faces? Check out the happiest countries.

And the grand finale: our population data round-up in the form of a Dashboard.

That’s today’s Data Dosage. Thanks for being our Data Amigo. It’s a big world out there and we love having you as our friend. J