Question by : How can China contribute to population growth with their one child policy?
In the wikipedia article on overpopulation it says that China is one of the nine countries that are expected to account for half of the world’s projected population increase by 2050. How is this possible with the one child policy?
In the wikipedia article on overpopulation it says that China is one of the nine countries that are expected to account for half of the world’s projected population increase by 2050. How is this possible? Won’t the amount of deaths be more than the amount of births?
won’t the amount of deaths be more than the amount of births?
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Answer by Officious Seeing Eye Byatch
Because there are soooo many people there already that even sticking to the one-kid policy there are sooooo many babies being born.
Eventually their population will slow way down because one child can’t replace its two parents, but for now there’s a lot of em!
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Because there already are oodles of Chinese, and there are lots of upcoming families that will still pop out a new child in the next 20 years, and those kids again 20 years later.
China population = well over 1,000,000,000
That is like 13% of the world population..
Think ! China has 1 billion or so population. if it’s one child for 2 person . it will become 1.5. That is how. anyway compared to the population growth in China one child policy is a recent implementation. so It will take a long time to see it’s effects.
Even with the one child policy, Chinese population will soon reach 1.4 billion.
The thing is, with the Communist rule, despite what the western media propaganda says, there’s better life and more freedom than ever before in China, not up to western standards, but definitly much better than the feudal states and the capitalist Republic of China before 1949, creating a national sense of well-being and the biggest baby boom in human history, which raised the Chinese population from 400 million in 1949 to the 1 billion in the 1980s, when the one child policy took effect.
On the other hand, with the Communist free medical system before the Opening-up Policy and the fast growing economy after the Cultural Revolution, Chinese are enjoying a much longer life span, with much less motality rate that before 1949.
One example: Tibetan average expectation of life was 35 under Dalai Lama’s slavery system which ended in 1959 when he fled, now it’s 71 under Beijing’s rule. Much of this accumulated population who would have died much earlier makes up of the huge present population in China.
The population is growing slowly now.
If not for the policy, calculates say the Chinese population would have already passed 1.8 billion.
That means over 400 million Chinese gave up their right to be born to fight the poverty and overpopulation of this poor world.