Zusammenfassung der Ressource
China's One Child Policy
- Reasons
- They wanted to avoid a Malthusian
type disaster
- could only raise living
standards if population growth
was controlled
- 1950-1959
- People encouraged to
have children
- Idea that large population
was a strong one
- SUCCESSFUL
- 1959 - serious famine,
20 million died
- 1974-1979
- People encouraged to
have fewer children
- 'Later, Longer, Fewer'
- UNSUCCESSFUL
- BR hardly changed
- 1979-1990
- One child policy introduced
- Strong pressure to use contraception.
- Special family-planning workers
- 'Granny police'
- Enforced abortions and sterilisations
- SUCCESSFUL (URBAN)
- EFFECTS: female
infanticide. couples
wanted sons as they
could provide for
family.
- 1990s
- policy relaxed
- concerned about the
impacts of an ageing
population
- still incouraged in
remote areas
- 2006
- Annual growth rate fallen to 0.6%
- fertility rate still 1.6
- long term goal is still to
stabilise the population
growth by 2050