Is a third of the world Slavic? No, that's not true: Whether counting by land mass or population, the world isn't a third Slavic. The total surface of land on Earth is 148,940,000 square kilometers. There are 13 predominantly Slavic countries in the world (full list below) that together cover 17,916,306 square kilometers of land (calculated from information from the CIA World Factbook). That means Slavic countries cover roughly 12 percent of the Earth's land surface.
Regarding population, there are around 360 million Slavic people living inside Slavic countries and abroad. That's 4.5 percent of the world's population, which is 8 billion.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok by @ondromlynarcik on June 18, 2023. In a graphic on the bottom right of the TikTok it stated:
A third of the Earth is Slavic!
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Jun 27 13:21:12 2023 UTC)
Country
2023 Population (WPR)
Land Area in km squared (CIA WF)
Belarus
9,498,238
202,900
Bosnia And Herzegovina
3,210,847
51,187
Bulgaria
6,687,717
108,489
Croatia
4,008,617
55,974
Czech Republic
10,495,295
77,247
Montenegro
626,485
13,452
Poland
41,026,067
304,255
Russia
144,444,359
16,377,742
Serbia
7,149,077
77,474
Slovakia
5,795,199
48,105
Slovenia
2,119,675
20,151
Ukraine
36,744,634
579,330
