Michael, The US population in 1850 was around 22 million, it is now 280
million. This is a greater percentage then what you were proposing for
China. Look at the following graph http://www.npg.org/historypop.html

APR.

"Michael Conzo" wrote in message
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"Patric" wrote:

I'm sure a reasonable person such as yourself can see that almost 2
million people could quite easily reach 22 million in approximately
160 years since the Famine emigration began.

A demographer you're not.

The population of China in 1850 was about 450,000,000. By your analysis,
China (also until recently with extremely large families) should have a
population of almost 5 billion now.

Your statistics are dodgy by a factor of at least four.