And Michael, just to prove a point....
In June 1995, Australia's population was 18.1 million, almost twice the size
it was 40 years ago, and four times the size in 1910.

Please fine this info at the following Aust. Gov. web address..


"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.