Office corrects population figure upwards

China’s National Bureau of Statistics said the country’s population already passed the 1.4 billion mark in 2017 – two years earlier than previously thought. The agency reached this conclusion after recalculating the figures based on last year’s census, which is only held every ten years, Japan’s Nikkei news agency reported. An error was found „in the sampling for 2011 through 2019“, Nikkei quotes the Chinese authority.