In favor of the figures quoted above, as order s of magnitude, there is the demographic question

mark that hangs over Yuan Chin a, where incidentally we also get a sense of the tiny Mongol
population compared with the native Chinese. One million Mongols for seventy million Chinese
accord ing to the census of the 1290 s carried out in China. This also reveals a drop in the population
from the previous Chin and Sung periods where the population is a 100 million. This decline
continued throughout the Mongol period; the census of