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  1. Population Stats
  2. Employment and unemployment South Africa
  3. One Piece Stats

Population Stats

Last edited March 2025

Interactive map- countries and their respective populations(2023)

Some interesting population facts
  • India surpassed China's population in 2022 becoming the most populated country in the world as of 2024.
  • As of 2024, 281 million people live outside their borders.
  • The United States has the highest immigrant population, with over 50 million in 2024, which amounts to 15.2% of the population. It is followed by Germany with 16+ million, Saudi Arabia with 13 million, and the United Kingdom with 11 million. South Africa, on the other hand, has 2.6 million, amounting to 4.1%, and is the most immigrated African country.
  • As of 2024, the male-to-female ratio is 50.4:49.6
  • Meanwhile as of 2024, countries with the highest number of emigrants are India(17.5 million), Mexico(11.7 million), China(10.7 million), and Russia (10.4+ million). South Africa has 800 thousand.
  • Monaco is the most highly dense country with 25411.4 people per square kilometer as of 2024, Iceland is the lowest with 3.67 people per square kilometer.
  • Asia contains about 60% of the earth's population.
  • Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa by a wide margin, followed by Ethiopia then Egypt.
  • In South Africa, more than half the population(35.8 million) live in 3 provinces.
  • The world reached 1 billion population for the first time in the early 1800s, and in 2022, about 200 years later, we reached 8 billion. It took only 12 years to go from 7 to 8 billion, and it is estimated by the United Nations that it will take another 15 years to reach 9 billion, due to the declining population growth rates.
  • The population is expected to be 10.4 billion in 2080-2100 according to the United Nations.
      • Some pandemics that have caused the largest number of deaths in history.
      1. Black death(1334-1353), 75 to 200 million.
      2. Influenza(1918-1920), 17-100 million.
      3. New world small pox(1520-1600s),25-55 million.
      4. Plague of Justinian(541-549), 15-100 million.
      5. HIV/AIDS(1981-present), 27-48 million.
      6. Covid 19(2020-present), 5-18 million.
      7. The third plague(1855-1959), 5-15 million.

      The population of our prey, poultry includes chickens, turkeys, Muscovy ducks, mallard ducks, and some other domesticated birds with the purpose of harvesting animal products.

      Data sources
    • https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/
    • https://ourworldindata.org/
    • https://unric.org/
    • https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/historys-seven-deadliest-plagues

      • Employment and unemployment South Africa

      Last edited March 2025

      Some interesting insights regarding employment and unemployment from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024 quarter 4 released on 18 February 2025 by Stats SA. For the full comprehensive report visit: https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0211/P02114thQuarter2024.pdf.

      Unemployment

      Data from:https://ourworldindata.org/, it is the only data not from the Stats SA report in this segment.

      According to the official definition, Unemployed people(15-64 years) are those who are not employed and are actively looking for work, are able to work, and are available to work, but are unable to find work.

      The highest rises in the rate of unemployment are in 2009 and 2021, which can be linked to the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and the 2020-2022 Covid-19 pandemic.

      Below are the unemployment rates according to the level of education of individuals. From these, we can see the unemployment rates from graduates(including bachelor's degrees, honors, and above) and people with qualifications from other tertiaries are always lower than the national unemployment rate, while those with no matric or only matric are always above.

      Below is the unemployment levels according to race and sex.

      Below are the reasons for unemployments, as evident it is most difficult for people entering the job market for the first time.

      The characteristics of the labour force

      These are people of working age in South Africa, amounting to 41.6 million. They can be classified into 2 categories, the labour force which includes the employed and unemployed, amounts to approximately 25.1 million. And the not economically active includes discouraged work seekers(21%) and other not economic active individuals which comprise Students(37.3%), Home-maker(13.6%), too old or too young for work(10.9%), illness/disability (9.3), other(8%).

      Levels of employment by province

      below is the division of hours worked by each of the employed persons(17.1 million total) in a week:

      One Piece Stats

      Last edited on March 2025

      When you're arguing or debating any topic, whether it's politics, sports, anime/series, artists, etc., you need facts, evidence and stats in order to prevail. Stats are essentially more powerful than the former simply because they often encapsulate the other two, plus the fact that in some cases it honestly doesn't even matter if the stats being presented are true or not, or whether they come from a credible source, bottom line is if you have stats of any kind, whatever point you're arguing will hold more weight to it vs when you don't. In this part of the section, I am going to pitch why One Piece is a really impressive piece of media, without focusing too much on the story or my anecdotal experience with it, but the stats instead.

      But first off, what is One Piece? apart from being my favorite show of all time, One Piece is originally a Japanese manga (graphic novel or comic) series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda or as we fans like to call him "Goda", it has been serialized in Shueisha 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 1997, as of October 2024 it currently has a total of 109 volumes with a combination of 1128 chapters. One Piece also has an anime adaptation with 1122 episodes which is how most people experience the story. It is one of the longest series ever, but unlike most shows of its length there's a very good reason it is long, not limited to the vast world building, hundreds of amazing characters and the vast mysteries, so much that there are people on YouTube who have made a career out of talking about One Piece alone. I've personally been following the story closely since 2014, anyone who knows me well enough knows just how much this story means to me.


      One Piece sales volume sales spiked during 2010 and 2011, this was mostly because of the promotion and release of the first big One Piece movie, Strong world(2010), this was also around time the Marineford arc was airing in the anime, which is considered by many to be the greatest arc in the story and one of the greatest, if not the greatest arc in all of anime, this is when One Piece was at its prime, and there was no better time to become a fan.



      One Piece is the highest selling manga of all time with an approximate of 535 million copies sold. For reference Dragon ball Z another titan of a manga franchise, is sitting at no. 5 with 260 million copies sold, and Naruto at no. 6 with 250 million, these aren't low numbers by any means, One Piece just gaps all its competition when it comes to manga sales.

      In 2015 and 2022, One Piece set the Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author".

      Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece is the no. 10th highest selling author of all time in terms of most copies sold, for reference no.1 is Shakespeare, Daniel steel is no. 4 and J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter is no. 8. This is particularly an amazing feat to me because Manga is still a relatively niche medium in the general public compared novels.

      One Piece is not only the highest selling because of its length, it has been the best-selling manga for 18 years out of the 26 years it has been serialized. It was the best-selling manga every year  (copies sold per year) for eleven consecutive years from 2008 to 2018, the streak was eventually broken by Demon slayer in 2019, I remember being devastated back in 2019 when the news broke out, I was looking for every source wishing it wasn't true.


      The amount of One Piece chapters we get a year has been declined gradually which is to be expected, considering the author has been writing and illustrating it for 26+ years, if anything One Piece fans are generally happy when we see the author taking priority of his health and not overworking himself.

      2020 and 2023 are the lowest of all, 2020 because of the covid-19 pandemic and 2023 because the author was busy working with the Live action adaptation of One Piece.

      These are the numbers of visits to the One Piece page on Wikipedia, on August 2023 there was a massive spike, this without a doubt due to the release of the One Piece Live Action adaptation which was a huge success and the first successful live action anime adaptation, it was one of the most successful & highly rated shows on Netflix in 2023 (One Piece stays winning).

      The live action adaptation got many new people into the show and raised the overall interest in the One Piece franchise. It was honestly a great time to be a One Piece fan, I even had some family members discussing it with me which was something I thought would never happen. Right now, I'm just hoping season 2 will be just as good.

      The story of One Piece is divided into sagas, each saga focuses on its own different themes, conflicts, characters and locations, it is an adventure story after all. You could think of a saga as like a season, but since One Piece is a weekly manga, we can't really use the season metric. Each saga also has its own arcs which are essentially the storylines within each saga.

      The Wano arc is the longest arc in the story, it stared in July 2018, when I was in matric, I remember being very excited when it began, because I had been anticipating it since 2016, It ended in August 2022; I had a beard by the time it ended which I find funny. Most people complain about how long recent arcs have become compared to the earlier arcs, a sentiment I can relate to however, I understand it's because the One Piece story and world is of a grater magnitude now, there are more characters, more mysteries and bigger conflicts that it would be impossible for everything to be resolved in a few chapters without making some bad writing choices.

      The One Piece anime has a separate pacing problem of its own , usually an anime is shorter when you compare it to the number of chapters of the adapted manga, for example: HunterXHunter(2011) has 148 episodes adapting 339 chapters, Death Note has 37 episodes adapting 108 chapters, Naruto has about 427 cannon episodes adapting 700 chapters and so on...; the Wano arc in the anime however, has 191 episodes adapting 149 chapters, Whole cake arc is 95 adapting 78 chapters, and Dressrosa is 118 adapting 102 and so on. The point I'm trying to make being that the anime, especially with the recent arcs, doesn't promote the One Piece franchise as well as it should, there should be way fewer episodes and way better animation to attract new fans, but instead they stretch out (no pun intended) an already long series. Luckily there's a new anime adaptation in the works by Netflix/Wit Studio which will do the story justice, plus remastered versions of the current anime that are in the works as of 13 October 2024. But despite everything I have said, I still love the current One Piece anime adaptation and I think it's a good way to experience the story in many ways, I just have higher standards when it comes to One Piece.

      Sources

      https://us.oricon-group.com/
      https://www.animefillerlist.com/
      https://www.imdb.com/list/ls522022697/
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_comic_series
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_manga
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Strong_World