the author thinks the inaccurate population numbers are just an African / 3rd world phenomenon - where dodgy officials inflate | understate numbers due to corruption etc

same mistake - westerners keep on making - mostly of the liberal kind when they don't want to face reality.

all countries have the same problem - whether developed | high trusting | low trusting or not.

observe what happens during elections - now suddenly a rural village it could be in bumwhat Alabama or middle of nowhere Africa - numbers are suddenly inflated -

same thing happens during humanitarian disasters - Side A accuses Side B of atrocities - then side A says XX number of people were killed | displaced - later on down the years we find out Side A made up the number the people would not have up x hell not even large X.

it's just human nature - lie, deceive and make up reality!!