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Surprised to learn there’s only 89 million members in a country of over 1.4 billion. Guess it’s very selective for a reason.

• ksec 8y ago
  Why do you consider this number is small? Assuming you won't being sarcastic.
  • inawarminister 8y ago
    USSR: 19 million (1986) out of population of 286,730,819 3rd Reich: 1945 the party reached its peak of 8 million with 63% being male and 37% being female (about 10% of the German population of 80 million). North Korea (1988) 3 million out of 19.56 million So it seems that most one party regimes only have less than 10% of it's population officially registered, hmm. If I am more knowledgeable, I'd make a comparison to medieval nobles and clergies tbh (The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had 10% of it's population counted as nobles as well in 1750 or so IIRC)
    • quicklime 8y ago
      Interestingly, it looks like about 32.5 million Americans are registered Republicans, out of a population of 325 million http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/registering-by-party-where-the-democrats-and-republicans-are-ahead/ http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/regist...
    • ksec 8y ago
      Thanks for those Numbers, give a much better perspective to One Party System Members count and Population percentage.