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If Canada wasn’t incredibly big and rich, rest assured that a leader like Narendra Modi would have almost nothing to do with us. Modi, the Prime Minister of India, is the head of a democracy housing one in every six humans alive, and he is here to spend three days in a country whose 35 million people are essentially a rounding error in global population counts. In pure population terms, it’s the equivalent of the mayor of Toronto making a state visit to Granby, Que., or of Stephen Harper spending three days visiting the tiny African country of Djibouti. TheNational Post’s Tristin Hopper crunched the numbers between India and the Great White North to illustrate the utterly mind-boggling number of humans Modi is here to represent:

1,252,000,000

Total population of India.

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35,120,000

Total population of Canada

2.8 per cent

Percentage of India that the entire population of Canada comprises.

3,069

At Canada’s current rate of growth (386,100 per year), it would take this many years to equal India’s population.