I have been suspect of Population Data and estimates for quite some time, and the numbers are starting to trickle out that confirm this. There are huge incentives for local goobermints to overstate their population, because all estimates for economic growth are based on this. Dieoff on a global basis actually probably began around a decade ago when I first questioned these estimates.
The numbers are increasing and have beccome harder to hide. Not only China has admitted it with cancellation of the 1 child policy, the UN admits it also.
A few questions still remain of course.
* How long will it take?
* How far down will it go?
* How will the economic system adjust to shrinkage?
* How will this affect our daily lives and standard of living?
* What actions will be taken by goobermints?
* What actions will be taken by populations?
There are many other questions of course, but this is sufficient for conversation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/researcher-questions-chinas-population-data-says-it-may-be-lower-2021-12-03/
Researcher questions China's population data, says it may be lower
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So just like Australia having the same average age as china does not cause western media to report on adult diapers almost outselling baby ones, lots of benefits in payments, leave, and reduced tax don't also cause suspicion of inflated population numbers here.
As if there isn't penalty for fraud in china using a fake birth certificate to collect benefits and it would be easy to get away with. Child nurse visits? Vax record? School enrolment? Taxes when these fake people created in the last 5 yrs grow up? Also everyone doing that remembered their fake child on census night. No mention of how many people Chu thinks have done that.
No mention of what Yi from Wisconsin bases his estimate of 100m fake people on except that ethnic minorities that did not have a 1 child policy also had fertility drop. Very negligent not to provide numbers there.
Obviously the rest of the world doesn't have a 1 child policy either, so that means nothing if the same rising standard of living associated happened.
This article says 1 child policy was dropped in 2016, elsewhere I've seen it as 2015. China then wanted to reduce population until either 2015 or 2016.
The real question is what caused the 20% drop in fertility in the last 2 yrs, leading them to change to allowing 3.
If china is faking 100m , the rest of the world could be faking another half a billion if the same rate applies.