Expert doubts China’s population number, saying India may be no. 1
Expert doubts China’s population number, saying India may be no. 1
- May 24, 2017
- Wang Feng, sociology, via The New York Times and Business Standard, May 24, 2017
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“To report that India surpassed China as the largest population on earth, without the announcement of some agency such as the United Nations’ Population Division, or a serious and peer-reviewed study, is not quite professional,” said Wang Feng, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine, who studies China’s population trends. “The problem with Mr. Yi’s number is that it is based on a hasty and careless calculation.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/asia/china-india-population.html?_r=0.
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