Also Michael, look at the reduced growth during the depression, if this
growth rate were the normal then the US would not have anything like the
population it does today. Because one country may not achieve the growth
Patrick is proposing doesn't mean another country hasn't achieved it. A
demographer you're not Michael.


"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.