File:Benfords Law Illustrated By World's Countries Population.svg
The chart depicts the percentage of countries having the corresponding digit as first digit of their population (red bars). For example, 64 countries of 237 (=27%) have 1 as leading digit of the population. Black points indicate what is predicted by Benford's law.
the data is from CIA Worldbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html, accessed August 07, 2010
R Source:
beside = barplot(c(64,43,24,31,15,20,17,11,12)/2.37, names.arg=1:9, ylim=c(0,32), space=NULL, col="pink") ; points(beside, 100*(log(2:10, 10) - log(1:9, 10)), pch=19)![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Benfords_law_illustrated_by_world%27s_countries_population.png/150px-Benfords_law_illustrated_by_world%27s_countries_population.png)