# https://gist.github.com/rdhyee/8511607/raw/f16257434352916574473e63612fcea55a0c1b1c/population_of_countries.json
# scraping of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)&oldid=590438477

# read population in
import json
import requests

pop_json_url = "https://gist.github.com/rdhyee/8511607/raw/f16257434352916574473e63612fcea55a0c1b1c/population_of_countries.json"
pop_list= requests.get(pop_json_url).json()
pop_list