>>508789057No one knows the accuracy of any of those numbers, including the current one. You think they counted all of the people in rural Australia and Africa and Asia and South America? Did they count the people inside the hole in Antarctica? How about the underground lizard people? Seriously, though, none of these numbers can be accurate even without considering fictional people. Additionally, in the most populous area, millions are in hiding. "Go ahead and answer the census. We won't deport you." Famous last advice to an illegal, or at least, even in the most liberal areas that have no intention of deporting them, that's what they'll think.
I don't know what the possible combined margin of error this could possibly be, but we've bred like rabbits, especially in the areas that lack the infrastructure to truly know who's who and living where.