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4 Ιαν 2011 · This article develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, and Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, and compares them with leading cities in Europe, Japan, and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living.
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Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in...
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As of 2012, there is 35 sq. meters per person on average and the construction rate exceeds 1.5 sq. meters per year which allow the total living area to exceed 50 sq. meters per capital as soon as in the year 2020.
1 Ιουλ 2010 · Our paper represents the first attempt to construct a more comprehensive profile of the evolution of Chinese living standards and human capital in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries based on the integration of large-sample based real wage and anthropometric evidences.
Attempts to reconstruct basic aspects of the standard of living in late eighteenth century China, focusing primarily on the Yangzi Delta (China’s richest region) but also briefly considering other areas, and arguing that for most of the population it was probably broadly comparable to Western Europe at the same time.
As a consequence, the average height of a population is strongly correlated with living standards in a population. This makes the study of human height relevant for historians who want to understand the history of living conditions.
The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing. What would the work look like if each country's area was in proportion to its population? Max Roser. How has world population growth changed over time? The world population has increased rapidly in recent centuries. But this is slowing. Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie
This article mobilizes new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during 18-20th century.
