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I guess what's surprising to me here is that in a nation of 1.5B people, they only have 250M homes.
by politician 8y ago
I guess what's surprising to me here is that in a nation of 1.5B people, they only have 250M homes.
- joe_the_user 8y agoThat surprised me also but that is 6 people per home. Considering the institution of the extended family is probably not completely dead, that doesn't seem altogether implausible. Edit: Given this - it seems like China might be able to more easily absorb this many apartments being put on the market. One could imagine a lot of people entering a modern world where they wouldn't live with their parents (or child).
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- hyperpallium 8y agoOne child policy since 1979 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy https://wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
- solveit 8y agoYes, but an extended family spans multiple generations. You can easily get over ten people even if the last generation consists of one person per pair of parents. Still, I'm sure there's a bunch of people that only live together on paper, or multiple families that share a house because they're poor, and the like.
- czardoz 8y agoAccording to [1], there were about 814 million urban residents in 2017. Assuming an increase upto 850 over 2018 (and it's probably lower than that, checking the historic increase), the average occupancy is closer to 3.4, which is more realistic. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-population-of-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-p...
- lthoang 8y agoMy Vietnamese home has 6 people. mother, father, me and my brother, 2 of my cousins.
- allannienhuis 8y agothe numbers were for urban homes I believe. China has a LOT of rural or small-town inhabitants. Not sure what the breakdown is these days though.
- czardoz 8y agoThat's just the _urban_ homes.
- politician 8y agoWhat percentage of the population is urban these days?
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