Thanks for your kind comment. The "official" population is of course a little smaller, 1,400 million in 2020 according to the UN, but that is because the government doesn't count anyone who was not officially registered at birth. Tens of millions of women were not registered during the 35 years of the one child policy as male children were preferred.
Please take up your case with the UN, not me. You're welcome!
I thought that you are arguing with that well-known China sympathizer - Financial Times ;-)):
Financial Times -- July 8, 2021:
“China’s emergence over the past four decades ranks as the biggest and longest-run economic boom in history. Its annual gross domestic product rose from a mere $191 B, or $195 per capita, in 1980 to $14.3 T, or $10,261 per capita, in 2019.
It has raised more than 770m people from poverty and transformed the Chinese economy into a high-tech powerhouse that is on course to eclipse America’s in size. This transformation is the landmark achievement of the Chinese Communist party, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday.”
Thanks for your kind comment. The "official" population is of course a little smaller, 1,400 million in 2020 according to the UN, but that is because the government doesn't count anyone who was not officially registered at birth. Tens of millions of women were not registered during the 35 years of the one child policy as male children were preferred.
Please take up your case with the UN, not me. You're welcome!
I thought that you are arguing with that well-known China sympathizer - Financial Times ;-)):
Financial Times -- July 8, 2021:
“China’s emergence over the past four decades ranks as the biggest and longest-run economic boom in history. Its annual gross domestic product rose from a mere $191 B, or $195 per capita, in 1980 to $14.3 T, or $10,261 per capita, in 2019.
It has raised more than 770m people from poverty and transformed the Chinese economy into a high-tech powerhouse that is on course to eclipse America’s in size. This transformation is the landmark achievement of the Chinese Communist party, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday.”