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I hear Modi is on it!
This is almost certainly low, and the current Indian regime is unlikely to invest to reduce the count or even increase accuracy.
It is obsessed with GDP per capita, and it can be boosted by both growing the economy in the numerator and dropping the number of poor people in the denominator. Climate change will do the latter.
South Asian cities are some of the worst urban heat islands on the planet, and death traps in summer. Without mass air conditioning, it is no exaggeration that over one million heat deaths a year likely occur now, and this number will grow exponentially in coming years.
The world is not prepared for the mass refugees Bangladesh will create.
