Managing Overpopulation Case Study
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- Created on: 21-02-16 14:57
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- Managing Overpopulatio
- Background Info
- China- world's largest population, over 1.3 billion
- 1949 population was 540 million
- 1970 population reached 830 million, China couldn't cope
- Famine from 1958-1961
- Late, Long and Few Policy
- Introduced in 1970-
- encouraged couples to have children later
- leave longer gaps between children
- have fewer children in total
- fertility rate dropped from 5.7 to 2.9, 1970-79
- resources weren't used up as quickly
- One-child policy
- introduced in 1979
- encourages couples to have one child
- Couples given benefits
- longer maternity leave
- better housing
- free education for child
- prevented up to 400 million births
- fertility rate dropped from 2.9 to 1.9, 1979-2009
- policy meant China has ageing population
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