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An inconvenient truth? China omits key figures that may have highlighted its demographic time bomb from official statistics

Noted: Yi Fuxian, a long-term critic of China’s birth control policy and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, caused a stir in May by saying that China’s population size had been overestimated by 90 million, and that China’s real population may be smaller than India’s.