How does the outside world know that China’s statistics on population and economy are accurate?
Posted: under China.
Tags: Prc, Rest Of The World, Trillion, Validity And Reliability
Adam asked:
The People’s Republic of China is listed at a population of 1.3 billion and a GDP of 7.9 trillion USD.
The People’s Republic of China is listed at a population of 1.3 billion and a GDP of 7.9 trillion USD.
How does the outside world know that these numbers, or others like them, are accurate? There are certainly many reasons that a country may be motivated to tweak these figures.
Compared to other nations, the PRC is somewhat “closed” and opaque, with a relatively high level of secrecy. So how does the rest of the world know the level of validity and reliability of these statistics?
Claudia
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Jan 11 2009
