Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
If, and I stress if this change of definition turns out to be correct, then the official Chines figures are cannot be considered reliable to tracking the progress in their population...
I get figures from
John Hopkins, they in turn get their data from a wide variety of sources not just the Chinese government. They have a
blog here for those that wish to deep dive.
At the end of the day I don't really know how accurate anything on the internet is. I can point out that the trajectory of data in mainland China matches the rest of the world. If there is a significant diversion between the two then I think the idea that some numbers don't add up would be a supportable hypothesis; but I don't see that right now. But that's just me, you might have another take on it. I honestly don't know.