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The figure is just that 42% of the world's population are in countries that are part of the SCO. The number's sound legit, though framing it as 'buying China's anti-US narratives' is questionable and just weirdly US-centric.
If it referred to the actual global population, you would have about 8 billion more or less apolitical people with no real opinion. The remainder, the very small minority of the world population who have an opinion on geopolitics, are maybe split about two thirds anti-US and one third pro-US, would be my guess. There are a lot of people who hate the US in the global south but there are also a lot of people who buy into Western propaganda. You have some of both in virtually every country, the question is just how many. Naturally you will have proportionally more US supporters in the imperial core where the propaganda and indoctrination is the most intense.