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If I am not wrong Chinese language (and other languages) doesn’t use space ' ' as word delimiter.
So which could be a good algorithm that works internationally?
The technique I’ve seen used a lot is to simply count the number of characters used and divide this by the average characters per word in Chinese. A number that is often used for this is 1.5
If your Chinese text has 1500 characters, it’s approximately 1000 words long.
I am not aware of a more accurate way of counting words, except for interpreting the text itself. This would mean actually understanding the context of the words used, since a Chinese character can sometimes be used as a word by itself, but also as a component in a composite word.