Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The human population has exceeded the 8 billion mark and continues to grow, these are the data of a virtual counter on the Countrymetrics.info website, which displays statistics in real-time. 

According to the resource, there are 1% more men on the planet than women. In the ranking of the 20 most populous countries on Earth, as of 14 August, Russia was in ninth place with a population of 146,060,101. The first three places are China - 1,456,049,258 people, India - 1,418,972,027 people, and the USA - 336,583,305 thousand people.

According to the resource, most often earthlings die from coronary heart disease - in almost 16% of cases. In second place are strokes, in third place are acute infections of the lower respiratory tract.

Earlier, Rosstat summed up the preliminary results of the All-Russian population census, according to which 147 million people live in the country. Deviations from this figure can be no more than 0.3%, the department is sure.