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I think we are getting a little confused here. In the decimal number system, a million is the seventh digit to the left of the decimal point. For example, in the number 8.555.444 the 8 is in the millions place.

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I suggest looking at the origin of the document and then determining. I have seen places where the number actually would be millions, and in some where it is billions. Depends entirely on the origin.

Millions and more: Numbers larger than the millions can get problematic in both English and Spanish. Traditionally, a billion has been thousand million in U.S. English but a million million in British English, and Spanish has followed the British standard, with a trillion being a thousand billions in either case. Thus 1,000,000,000,000 would be a billion in British English but a trillion in U.S. English. Precise Spanish, following the British understanding, uses mil millones for 1,000,000,000 and billón for 1,000,000,000,000, while trillón is 1,000,000,000,000,000. But U.S. English has influenced English outside the U.S. and Spanish as well, especially in Latin America, so there can be confusion both in Latin America and among English speakers outside the United States about exactly what a billion or billón is.

...on what country it is from and the convention on the use of the comma and decimal point in the country of origin.

If from Mexico it is 695,877,000.

If from Chile it is 695.8 billion.

I cannot list all countries for each specific case.

The English being USA usage.

Hi Clara!
I guess it depends on what market your translation is for.

Here [copied and pasted] is the definition, in English, from the Random House-Webster's:

bil·lion (bilÆyÃn), n., pl. -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, adj.
–n.
1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
2. a very large number: I've told you so billions of times.
–adj.
3. equal in number to a billion.
[1680–90; < F, equiv. to b(i)- BI-1 + -illion, as in million]
—bilÆlionth, adj., n.

However, I believe even the British now accept a billion as "a thousand million" (in my day, it used to be a million million).

If I'm right, then YOU are absolutely right---it would be 695.8 billion.
Luck!
Terry

695.877 thousand million [British]

but the most common in both U.S. and British English avoids the question altogether because if there's more than 1 digit after the decimal, rather than right million or billion we prefer:

695,877,000,000