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TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/
Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange implications that they wouldn't endorse if they thought about it more.
Not just that—population ethics is a BIG DEAL. A lot of ethical decisions hinge on how you think about changes in future populations....
I haven't got an answer to the direct question but Prof. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde does some really good work on the economic consequences of current demographic trends and sometimes addresses problems within published data, and reasons why there is divergence amongst datasets. Have a crawl through his X account: https://x.com/JesusFerna7026
As it relates to many developing countries, I think there's a general consensus that a lot of the data (economic, demographic etc.) is at least unreliable and in some cases, just made up.