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Originally Posted by someone123
I don't think they compute these populations on a centralized server. Instead, when you load the page your browser probably loads some initial conditions and runs a model that adds and subtracts population randomly according to a distribution that is meant to match the rates happening in the real world. Over time they may tweak the parameters of the model, so a newly-loaded page may diverge from some loaded a long time ago.
When Statistics Canada announced 1,000,000 they probably already knew what the latest modeling would look like or may have gotten ahead of the public population clock a bit, rather than being wrong.
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This is correct. It's just a client side JS program running when you open the tab and load the page. No communication with the server after the initial page load.
As their data and population calculation algorithm changes is when you see those big changes in data.