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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Sounds like some of their estimates might be high but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
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60-100k sounds high, but not for China.
For instance, 100k here vs our population of approx 36 million = 2.8%
100k to China's 1.6 billion population (45 ish times more) = something like .062%
I'd also say that for that number, the whole 100k isn't non-voluntary donors. Does anyone know whether they hint at the actual number of organs that they have no idea where they came from (ie: Illegal)?
EDIT: From OP article
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He estimates that 80 per cent of the organs used in China come from prisoners of conscience, although “in the presence of total cover-up and the absence of total access to data, that’s just an estimate.”
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80k organs a year? Hmm... I guess a single individual has more than one organ... India for instance ran into something similar in the past.
http://content.time.com/time/world/a...709006,00.html
Though, perhaps not as institutionalized as per China's case.