When talking about the populations within California's reapportioned House districts in 1951, a report from Duke University found that "is not an excessive disparity in district populations, but [the populations and disparities are perhaps larger than necessary." If the House continued to expand as it did prior to the Reapportionment Act of 1929, it would currently have 1,156 members (still just the second largest lower house, after China). This would give the representatives, on average, about 287 thousand constituents, on par with Japan's National Diet.