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by guardiangod 1104 days ago
Not sure where he got his stats from, but 9.56 million sounds about right.

https://news.sina.cn/gn/2023-01-17/detail-imyanfvn6707213.d....

(Figure 3)

2017 - 17.23 million

2018 - 15.23

2019 - 14.65

2020 - 12.00

2021 - 10.62

2022 - 9.56

Note that this is official Chinese gov statistics. Their numbers are known to be untrustworthy.

1 comments

Falling in half in six years? Again, woah. Any idea what's driving that?
Birth control, expensive housing, covid cultural shifts.
Modernity. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…
With a larger population combined with more of a chance of living past the age of 5, you need fewer births to get the same population growth rate globally. As the world population rapidly urbanizes we will settle into a new normal that will still approach Earth's carrying capacity faster than we can adequately react.
Human population has overshot in 1971[1], what are you talking about? Carrying capacity has long been exceeded, we’re living thanks to the phantom carrying capacity[2].

1: https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-alrea...

2: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-03-06/dependence-pha...

What's with the acerbic attitude? Is this implied to be common knowledge or somehow obvious in the course of life for everyone everywhere?
Sorry if it seemed too bold. It’s obviously not common knowledge yet in this stage of the Collapse.