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Re:What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China? by frenchy on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#28630926)
> So what? USA has more empty homes per capita (17 million for 330 million citizens, vs. 60 million in China for over 1.3 billion)

I have no horse in this game, but 17/300 = 5.2% and 90/1300 = 6.9%. (edit: wikipedia says population of China is 1.4 billion, which would give 6.4%).

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Re:What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China? by endisneigh on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:55AM (#28630977)
you're using the wrong numbers here.

17/330 = 5.2% 60/1400 = 4.2%

the grandparent poster was mistaken (the 90 million represented the amount of people the empty housing could house, not the amount of empty homes itself) so I found real number and included the link.

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Re:What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China? by frenchy on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:19PM (#28631293)
Oh! That makes a difference.
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