Statistics

Finding a graph or chart on the Tibet and China controversy was very hard. Finally, after some time, I came across some statistics about the population of Tibet. The information was pretty bland, but I was happy to find something. According to Peter Kauffner in the article “How Many Ethnic Chinese Live in Tibet?” more and more ethnic chinese are choosing to live in Tibet. The population of Tibet in 1990 was 2.2 million. Of that 2.2 million, there were “ 66,000 ethnic Chinese with permanent residence status. Not included are another 40,000 Chinese entrepreneurs who are part of an unofficial "floating population" and between 40,000 and 65,000 soldiers and paramilitary police, putting the total Chinese population in Tibet at no more than 8 percent.” (Peter Kauffner) This is a very small percent. However, in 1995 the number increased immensely. The statistics show that “250,000 and 300,000, not including small groups of peoples indigenous to the region” (Peter Kauffner) were living in Tibet.
As you can see, the numbers of ethnic chinese living in Tibet are small for now, but they are increasing fast. This means that Tibet is slowly becoming less and less isolated from China. This population transfer is not a good thing for Tibet becoming independent. The more isolated they can be, the better. I would like to believe that this is a reliable source, however, a few parts of the article were very confusing telling me that this source was not professionally written. All in all, this weeks blog was quite challenging and bland.