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
“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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