Information about the study was broadcast on Puls, a popular nationally televised weekly health program with approximately 700,000 viewers (total population of Norway = 4.5 million).
The first episode started last night with a burst of moody helicopter shots, a flood of statistics washing over the viewer: the biggest population, the most arrests, more crime than anywhere in Britain.
The show is watched by some 5m out of Kenya's 9m or so viewers (in a population of around 35m).
This year's highest-rated show on Christmas Day in the US – scoring just 5.2 million viewers, with a population five times the size of the UK – was a colourised version of a 1960 CBS Andy Griffith Show Christmas special.
Ordinary people are only slowly becoming aware of the court, helped by broadcasts of synopses of proceedings, which often draw some 2m viewers, of a population of 14m.Interest may grow.
Many years later, I wrote: "Is it conceivable that if the British could have been a population of viewers - of television viewers instead of newspaper readers - is it conceivable they would have just shaken their heads and gone to the railway stations, as they did, to wave their boys off on the troop trains?' So, the first thing I felt was, "This is a war.
The women's table tennis gold medal match — won by China — drew 330 million viewers last Sunday, according to CSM, more viewers than the entire population of the United States.
Will minority viewers – 38% of the population but responsible for 46% of movie tickets sold in the US in 2014 – tune out when it comes to awards and speeches by a parade of white nominees?
Upon learning that Damon Lindelof is returning to television with a new drama about a mysterious event which sees 2% of the world's population disappear, viewers may well sigh: "There's no way I'm watching that – I gave six years of my life to Lost and look how that turned out".
The partly private network 2M, offering a mix of Francophone and Arabic programming, has an estimated daily audience of about 15 million viewers out of a population of 33 million; the Al Oula network, broadcasting mostly in Arabic and providing a daily account of the king's activities and charity work, has an estimated audience about half that number.
