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Post by ndrthl on Nov 26, 2005 14:03:50 GMT -5
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Post by MC anunnaki on Nov 26, 2005 14:07:59 GMT -5
Go China!
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Nov 26, 2005 14:10:22 GMT -5
China has like almost 110 cities with a population of over 1 million people.
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Post by Toasty on Nov 27, 2005 3:24:08 GMT -5
that's a lot of people. We should start learning chinese as of....... now.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Nov 27, 2005 19:34:18 GMT -5
Chinese is the 3rd most spoken language in California.
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Post by brownoid on Dec 4, 2005 16:44:46 GMT -5
Chinese is the 3rd most spoken language in California. that's a distant 3rd after English and Spanish right  But can all chinese understand eachother? how different are their regional dialects/languages? Are they like different euro languages, or like the difference between British and American English? As for china's density, it's not much different to the EU. China: Area - 9,596,960 sq km Population - 1,306,313,812 Density - 136 people/sqkm European Union: Area - 3,976,372 sq km Population - 456,953,258 Density - 115 people/sqkm (and yes China doesnt have it's population uniformly spread, but then neither does the EU - France, Scandinavia, Spain are low density, UK, Netherlands, and Germany are high density) Some interesting facts about china... - china's still a 3rd world nation but has a TFR of only 1.72 children born/woman, which is lower than many 1st world countries (e.g. US, Canada, Australia, France, Ireland). - 21.4% of chinese are aged 0-14 years ( 279m chinese - 148m males 131m females). based on current TFR (1.72), the 131m females aged 0-14 will have 225m offspring (which is less than replacement level - 2.1*279/2). in comparison Nigeria has 27m females aged 0-14, and based on their current TFR (5.53), these females will have 149m offspring (more than half the offspring that china could produce!). Add another african nation, DR.Congo (14m females aged 0-14, TFR (6.54), these females will have 92m offpsring), and thats 241m offspring, topping china, from just from two african nations that are currently home to just 188m people! - what this means is that assuming the Total Fertility Rates of these nation's females were constant (they'd most likely fall), that by the time the current children aged 0-14 go on to reproduce, fully, (when they're aged around 30-44 i.e. 30 years time), their youngest age demographic will appear as mentioned, and thus the population makeup will gradually reflect that as those people age, and ripple thru the full age demographic spectrum. This would be cool to see such nations in the future reach the size of mighty china & india.  |
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Post by pacificrim on Dec 4, 2005 21:43:58 GMT -5
But can all chinese understand eachother? how different are their regional dialects/languages? Are they like different euro languages, or like the difference between British and American English? Different spoken chinese dialects (or languages if you want to call them), there are about 6 - 12 of them depending on how they're defined, are about as different from each other as French and Italian. It is probably for political reasons (china one big country, while europe is many small ones) and the fact that they all have a common writing system that chinese prefer to consider all of them one language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language |
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Post by silverman on Dec 5, 2005 1:16:25 GMT -5
There is about 800 million Europeans not counting Russia or Turkey. There maybe a total of a billion white people if we count Russia whites, American whites, Australion whites, ect. but maybe even more.
India seems to be catching up with China and may take over China as most populated by the year 2020-2030.
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Post by brownoid on Dec 5, 2005 5:55:01 GMT -5
There is about 800 million Europeans not counting Russia or Turkey. There maybe a total of a billion white people if we count Russia whites, American whites, Australion whites, ect. but maybe even more. India seems to be catching up with China and may take over China as most populated by the year 2020-2030.yeah that'd be nice... seems it's only a matter of time look here: china has 131m females aged 0-14 india has 164m females aged 0-14 (25% more females than china) and then look here: china has TFR 1.72 children/woman india has TFR 2.78 children/woman (62% more children/woman than china) look what happens when you multiply 1.25 by 1.62... 2.025India's likely headed to have twice as many people as china (sometime in 50-80 years from now). that's just awesome, i think. then theres pakistan and bangladesh, which are growing far more rapidly than india. south asia will have some super cities in the future. |
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Post by ndrthl on Dec 5, 2005 6:05:31 GMT -5
some other East Asian countries:
Japan ~127 million people
Philippines ~ 87 million people
Vietnam ~ 83 million people
South Korea ~ 48 million people
North Korea ~ 22 million people
two Southeast Asian countries:
Indonesia ~ 241 million people
Thailand ~ 65 million people
Scandinavia's population:
~ 24 million people
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