- China has the worlds largest population at about 1.3 billion, this equates to 25% of the worlds population.
- Yet China is only 9% of the worlds land area.
- And only 6% of the worlds agricultural land.
- The birth rate is 17 per 1000.
- The death rate is 7 per 1000.
- So a natural increase of 10 per 1000.
- China is the only country which has had to cap population growth as strictly as this.
- The policy was introduced in 1979 after 10 years of trying to persuade people to have less children with the 'Long, late and few' argument.
- The policy will stay in place indefinitely, but has been modified so that two children are allowed if:
- The parents are farmers and their first child was a girl.
- The first child is disabled.
- Both parents were only children themselves.
- Or the parents are from an ethnic minority.
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