China has ~1.3 billion people, but “most of people in the world” don’t live in China. That would mean over 50% of the world’s population. Maybe the sentence is just worded poorly, or it was written by someone whose first language isn’t English.
Myth #1. The chili pepper was named in honor of the South American country.
The ancient Aztecs who lived in the territory of modern Mexico gave the name to this hot pepper. The state of Chile is located far away from Mexico and was inhabited by different people who used to speak a different language.
China has ~1.3 billion people, but “most of people in the world” don’t live in China. That would mean over 50% of the world’s population. Maybe the sentence is just worded poorly, or it was written by someone whose first language isn’t English.