I wonder, does China have a population of 1.4 billion? The claim is that they're lying, and their population is much less. There are ways of working out what their population is, without having a census. We could look at the number of telephone connections, how many cars are on the road, how many flights from city to city, that sort of thing.
Another way of looking at it is to compare China with India, where we know how many people there are. We can look at the congestion, keeping in mind the difference in territorial space available for occupation. Bear in mind too that both countries have uninhabitable areas, where it is too mountainous, or there is no water.
Below, I've inserted a map, placing India over China. Lifestyle factors have to be taken into account, such as how many people in a family live under one roof. However, it is hard to ignore reports of empty cities in China. You will have seen the stories of cities that are new, that could house a million people, but where they're mostly empty, with only 20-30k living there. When I see such stories, I think they've built in too much capacity, but the population did not grow to fill the space. That may indicate population decline.
I simply don't know the answer, I'm just putting it out there for consideration:
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