Number 3rd in Population Worldwide?

[Ruvani]

Hello, everyone. It seems that after a quick check, that I have somehow broken the NS statistics, to where it says, on the global leaderboard, that I, a newly formed nation of 5 million, am..number 3rd in the world for population.

Yeah, that doesn't look so good chief.

I am not hacking. I literally just, created a new side nation, and this happened.

[New Jacobland]

Hello, everyone. It seems that after a quick check, that I have somehow broken the NS statistics, to where it says, on the global leaderboard, that I, a newly formed nation of 5 million, am..number 3rd in the world for population.

Yeah, that doesn't look so good chief.

I am not hacking. I literally just, created a new side nation, and this happened.

Known bug, wait for a little while and your stats should sort themselves out.

[Arjunnagar]

For me it says you are first in population

[Forest Republic]

I'm not sure why, but population seems to be a slightly broken stat. For new nations who haven't been fully ranked, their population can be greatly overstated, like this one. However, it should fix itself fairly soon. This guy was having the same problem, but now that I look at his puppet everything seems to be working. These mismatched new nations also don't really seem to affect the rankings since the nations that should actually be #1, #2, etc. are still properly listed from what I can tell.

EDIT: Actually that first example has also fixed itself. If you want to see something weird with the population though, check out this zombie of a nation.

[Ladinacem Andia]

Similar issue arising here:

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=bagongo

Country appears to have CTEd, but is also somehow alive and ranked first in several areas.