It's not just a matter of ease of implementation, but also cost to maintain and run. I imagine aoe2.net was seeing a good deal of traffic. Some of those API calls can be fairly significant/demanding.
Some questions I have are:
How is it that aoe2.net is able to access the data that it does...
I was too lazy to do my own tally by country. Those numbers are "right" enough to make the point. Move Mexico to North America by all means. That puts North America at roughly 470 million and Latin America/Caribbean at 550 million.
Using world population as a metric is misguided to begin...
A number that is no doubt skewed by the number of people living in India and China.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-region/
What's this? Latin America and Caribbean have a higher population than North America and trail just behind Europe?
But I'm told only 3%...
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