One out of 1,300,000,000

[Theo]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20050110/od_nm/odd_china_baby_dc

Chinese baby "Zhang Yichi" becomes China's 1,300,000,000th citizen. Unreal.

 

[diverge]

Interesting. According to my calculations, at current growth rate (0.54%), they won't hit 1.4 billion for 13 years. (See http://www.indexmundi.com/china/population_growth_rate.html).

 

[Anthony Ng]

... they won't hit 1.4 billion for 13 years.

0.1 billion is A LOT. Don't let that decimal point tricks you: it's actually 100 million, or 100 big cities of 1 million people each.