btw china always had a gigantic population, only in the past it had BELOW a billion, so it wasnt like "whoah!"-worthy in the same way
they were always plentyful tho, 50 million back in year 0, and it has hovered around a quarter of a billion to half a billion for centuries.
also, the population of today isnt cencus based, but estimation based. theyre planning a cencus soon, and some estimates dare guess upto 2 billion people
SO MANY CHINESE!!!
(btw my countless edits are mostly cus i type like a fucking mongoloid)