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Remarkable calculations have been made to determine how many Chinese actually
live in China.

The results are striking.

According to official counts, China had a population of 1.4 billion before the
outbreak of Covid.

However, that number was already seriously doubted back then. The reason is
very simple. The regions receive funding from the central government based on
their population. Therefore, it makes economic sense to exaggerate the
population.

But after Covid, the databases were closed to outsiders. If they were ever
public at all, that is.

So, other methods had to be used.

Some people got very creative with that. For example, the use of table salt.
We know the average consumption of the Chinese from 2010 to 2019.

We also know how much salt was consumed back then. Table salt is not a
critical raw material, so the Chinese government has no qualms about
publishing the figures. (Although that may change after this). Increasing
prosperity results in the population eating more salt.

You would therefore expect an increase in salt consumption with a growing
population and increasing prosperity. The truth is that the amount of salt
consumed in China has decreased enormously. And by that, it has decreased
HUGELY. This is despite increasing prosperity, which leads to increased salt
consumption worldwide and previously also did so in China.

A 25% decrease in salt consumption occurred in Japan… So, based on a
starting figure of 1.4 billion, this means the population has decreased by 300
million people… But salt consumption alone would indicate that China has 800
million inhabitants.

Grain consumption has also decreased so much (Russian figures) that the
Russians think China has ‘only’ 800 million inhabitants.

But how is it possible that China has lost so many people?

A Chinese hacker discovered that the official population in 2019 should have
been 980 million… If that's true, then the official figure of 1.4 billion
wasn't even 1 billion. But do those figures take into account Hong Kong,
Macau, and Chinese living abroad? Another question… If the government has a
database with the real figures, why do they allow regions to report nonsense?

The Covid pandemic led to an extremely strict lockdown in China. When it was
lifted, no one resisted what was still circulating. The new Covid variants had
little impact on the rest of the world. But in China, after the first long
lockdown, crematories reported a supply of corpses that was 8 to 10 times
higher than normal. This situation lasted at least three months, and it
occurred several times with subsequent Covid variants. In a three-month period
after the lockdown, they calculated that there had been 25 million additional
deaths.

Another calculation comes from an American professor who looked at mitigation.
More people means more lighting and therefore more light visible from space.
This applies worldwide, except in China, where the amount of lighting visible
from space decreased significantly after 2019.

It is estimated that China lost at least 100 million inhabitants between 2020
and 2025, possibly more. But was that 100 million out of 1.4 billion, or was
it the more logical 100 million out of 980 million Chinese?

Given alternative calculations, a figure of 900 million Chinese seems more
fair than the currently official figure of 1.3 to 1.4 billion.

Some calculators even estimate a population closer to 500 million Chinese than
900 million. After all, the enormous increase in prosperity must also be taken
into account. People eat and consume much more than before, so if consumption
figures are declining so dramatically, the population must be much smaller
than officially announced.

If the population is so much smaller, then the economic figures from China are
also inaccurate.

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