China's Population

We all know that China is the world's most populous nation.

Indeed, China's population of nearly 1.3 billion people is greater than the combined populations of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and the fifteen countries that formerly made up the Soviet Union.

In an account by Kenneth Lieberthal, China adds the equivalent of the population of Australia to its demographic base every 21 months, and it adds a population nearly equal to Taiwan's every two years.

Wowee.