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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...990-says-us-academic/articleshow/58835756.cms
'China has been overstating its population numbers since 1990,' says US academic
Shailaja Neelakantan| TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 25, 2017, 08.12 PM IST
HIGHLIGHTS- China is desperately in need of more rather than fewer births to combat a shrinking and ageing work force, researchers said
- They also called for the removal of population controls in China and for improved data quality.
Beijing's numbers suggest China has 90 million more people than it actually has, according to data compiled by Yi Fuxian, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher.
"The concealing of a Chinese demographic slump by over-optimistic government projections is ongoing," said Yi at a conference in China this week.
That means India, not China, is the world's most populous nation. That also means China is in big trouble because its demography isn't changing rapidly enough to combat a shrinking working-age population that has been declining since 2012
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