China: a brief statistical sampler
Official statistics on China should be viewed as indicative rather than definitive, and this applies more specifically to some categories than others. In a huge country with, still, a large rural population that lives at the margins of the formal economy, a degree of uncertainty is inevitable. Statistics that may be critical to a business plan should be reviewed and, if possible, checked by cross-referencing other sources, or by formal market research.
POPULATION
Thanks to the 'one-child' policy, China's population is growing only slowly, though at over 1.3 billion, it accounts for one-fifth of the...