>>bookof+(OP)
I don't trust China's population numbers at all.
Officially before the one child policy they were at 800 million.
After 30 years of 1 child policy somehow they were at 1.2 billion.
The math isn't mathing. How do you have explosive population growth when birth control is brutally enforced?
The official fertility rates for that period was 1.3. For reference: 2.1 is the replacement rate.
If anything their total population went down during one child policy.