China One-Child Policy
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- Facts about China!
- One Child Policy- CHINA
- Impacts of the policy.. (green is positive, blue is negative impacts)
- Total fertility rate has fallen
- 1970: 5.75 1990: 2.25 2000: 1.70
- Infanticide
- More females than males were dying in their first year of birth
- Female babies being killed
- Unbalanced sex ratio
- More females than males were dying in their first year of birth
- 1982-100:110 1990-100:111.7 (girls to boys)
- Prostitution and slavery
- Dramatic rise in levels of prostitution an buying/selling of women
- Police freed 42,000 kidnapped women and children in 2001 and 2002
- Dramatic rise in levels of prostitution an buying/selling of women
- 4-1 problem
- one adult child iis left to provide support for his or her 2 parents and 4 grandparents
- Male babies considered more desirable
- Males continue the family name and look after parents in old age- female children go to the husbands family
- Regional Imbalances
- 1999 national average BR= 15.2/1000, but in rural Tibet =23.2/1000, rural Qinghai =26.8/1000 and in urban Shanghai =5.4/1000
- Total fertility rate has fallen
- Why was it introduced?
- In 1950 the rate of population change in China was 1.9 per cent each year.
- If this doesn't sound high, consider that a growth rate of only 3 per cent will cause the population of a country to double in less than 24 years!
- Previous Chinese governments had encouraged people to have a lot of children to increase the country's workforce.
- by the 1970s the government realised that current rates of population growth would become unsustainable
- In 1950 the rate of population change in China was 1.9 per cent each year.
- Problems with the policy..
- Those who had more than one child didn't receive these benefits and were fined.
- Many people claim that some women, who became pregnant after they had already had a child, were forced to have an abortion and many women were forcibly sterilised.
- Remote rural areas have been harder to control.
- In rural areas it's traditional to have large families
- Long-term implications..
- fewer people of working age to support the growing number of elderly dependants -
- Iin the future China could have an ageing population
- fewer people of working age to support the growing number of elderly dependants -
- Impacts of the policy.. (green is positive, blue is negative impacts)
- China's 2010 population of 1.3 billion compares with 309 million in the USA and 61 million in the UK.
- Chinas population is growing by 250,000 people a week.
- Almost the population of a city the size of Nottingham.
- There are 113 boys to every 100 girls (15 and under)
- Beijing has almost twice the population of London, and covers ten times its area/
- 16 of the worlds biggest urban areas are in China.
- One Child Policy- CHINA
- the falling birth rate - leading to a rise in the relative number of elderly people
- Long-term implications..
- fewer people of working age to support the growing number of elderly dependants -
- Iin the future China could have an ageing population
- fewer people of working age to support the growing number of elderly dependants -
- Long-term implications..
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