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Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:52 +1000, Michael Conzo
wrote:
"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.
And he's not Irish-American, either.
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.
Well, de Oirish was always a bit tick, boyo..............
Is that supposed to be funny?
Rob
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