Comment by rossdavidh
11 hours ago
What are the incentives to either pretend you have more people in your household than you do, or pretend you have more people in your city/region/country than you do?
What are the incentives to get it right?
Given the balance of incentives, it seems breathtakingly naive to think that we are within a few percent of the real population. The incentives (different, but present, in both rich and poor countries) are greatly mismatched.
The problem is likely much worse than the writer of this article believes.
As much as I hate it, but digital identity is a solution for poor demographic data.
And digital identity and authentication seems to be a very important service, should it be in the hands of corporations or governments?