China is hiding a population secret, analyst says
China is hiding a population secret, analyst says
- July 17, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, Newsweek, July 17, 2024
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The United Nations on June 11 released its 28th annual report on population estimates and projections, with an estimate of 1.42 billion for China, which is even further off the mark than Beijing's numbers, according to Yi [Fuxian]. … "Dr. Yi is an early and courageous individual to criticize China's harmful birth control policies," said Feng Wang, professor the University of California, Irvine's sociology department. But Wang disputes Yi's conclusions. "Scholars in China and at the UN have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has 'discovered' such a huge discrepancy." ... "China has had at least three censuses since the start of the millennium, and there has been no evidence that more than 100 million people are overreported in China," Wang said.
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