That's not too far off from the figures quoted in the article – a 2% difference of 1.4 billion (China's population) would be 28 million, which is not too much l

That's not too far off from the figures quoted in the article – a 2% difference of 1.4 billion (China's population) would be 28 million, which is not too much less than the 34 million difference quoted in the article.