Does India now have the largest population in the world? Academic claims China overestimates how many people live in the country and has slipped to second place
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Does India now have the largest population in the world? Academic claims China overestimates how many people live in the country and has slipped to second place
- May 25, 2017
- Wang Feng, sociology, via Daily Mail, May 25, 2017
Wang Feng, a leading demographer from the University of California, Irvine, has, however,
dismissed Yi's claims about the shrinking population. 'He's a person with a political
agenda and [who has been] a consistent critic of the Chinese government's policy ...
[so] his numbers should not be taken at face value,' he told The Guardian.
For the full story, please visit http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4540624/Scholar-claims-China-population-smaller-estimated.html.
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