>16506263more, a little more serious
I doubt population numbers are cooked. That's kind of hard to do. Traditionally, having a higher population is viewed as a strength. Nations might want to lie about that in order to appear stronger but intelligence agencies can make guesses based on farming capacity and food imports as to how many people a nation is housing. GDP is much easier to fabricate and a few nations do that.
Governments are very hesitant to discredit each other, as they all know that sabotaging confidence in another nation is also self-sabotage with their own reputation. That gets people thinking.

Anyways, there's a few competing schools of thought about overpopulation. There's "cornucopians" that think supplies are endless for ever more people, and if not then technology will find a way. There's also end-of-world doomsayers and their positions may actually be more reasonable. These worldviews are drawn on right and left political lines in the USA respectively.

Eventually there might be a change of rhetoric where more unskilled laborers are seen as a liability but right now that's not the case. Beware technology changing your way of life, often it takes a lifetime to see the benefits reaped while the costs are paid in advance.

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