When Naruto said the Shinobi World's total population was no more than twenty million, he was actually overestimating it.
Everyone knew TikTok had an algorithm.
It delivered targeted recommendations. If you searched for Naruto or watched short clips from it, it would regularly recommend related videos.
He had come across an interesting video in his previous life.
Just how much free time did that creator have?
He had zoomed in and counted the formations to calculate the total number of combatants in the original story's Fourth Shinobi World War. Could you believe that?
Naruto had watched the entire video several times. Its count of the original story's Allied Forces was about as authoritative as it got.
In the original story's Fourth Shinobi World War, the Five Great Nations, plus the handful of shinobi from the Land of Iron, had only 80,007 people.
In other words, the total forces deployed by both sides in the original story's Fourth Shinobi World War hadn't even exceeded two hundred thousand.
What did that mean?
The Shinobi World's population was pitifully small.
After all, White Zetsu couldn't count as people living in the era of the original Naruto story.
Without White Zetsu, that meant the entire Shinobi World had no more than ninety thousand shinobi.
And now that Naruto controlled the city housing the Land of Fire's Daimyo's Residence, he had obtained the Land of Fire's total population figures.
He could immediately use national strength and territory to roughly estimate the entire Shinobi World's population.
A vast world, with mountains and rivers, had produced so few people?
Naruto had wondered where things had gone wrong.
Later, he had understood.
Now, Naruto looked at the four of them and sneered. "So few people on such fertile land? Do you know where the problem lies?"
The four