Just for fun (and because I don't like unsourced claims) I fired up Mathematica to sum up the population of the countries listed. Here are the results:
It's not accurate because I'm not taking into account things such as "only in French Canada" or "only in currency", so some countries are double counted. But it gives a rough estimate. Five billion people for the dot, two for the comma.
This new version has a Convert Number Format command that can be used to convert between the two formats. It just occurred to me I didn't take that into account for the new statistics operations. I'll be sure to fix it.