China’s one-child policy has prevented almost half a billion births but has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems for the country.
As the world’s population hits the seven billion mark, straining the earth’s resources, China can claim to have curbed its birth rate to around 1.5 children per woman since the policy was introduced in 1979.
Without the birth limits, which no other country applies as rigorously or on such a scale, the world’s most populous nation would have hundreds of millions more mouths to feed than the 1.34 billion it has now.
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In the next five years the number of people in China over 60 will jump from 178 million to 221 million — 13.3 percent to 16 percent of the population — according to the People’s Daily Online.
By 2050, a quarter of China’s population will be over 65, the Commission for Population and Family Planning said, compared to just nine percent today.
Already, half of China’s over-60s live alone, a situation unthinkable before, when four generations would live under one roof. Full story...
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As the world’s population hits the seven billion mark, straining the earth’s resources, China can claim to have curbed its birth rate to around 1.5 children per woman since the policy was introduced in 1979.
Without the birth limits, which no other country applies as rigorously or on such a scale, the world’s most populous nation would have hundreds of millions more mouths to feed than the 1.34 billion it has now.
(...)
In the next five years the number of people in China over 60 will jump from 178 million to 221 million — 13.3 percent to 16 percent of the population — according to the People’s Daily Online.
By 2050, a quarter of China’s population will be over 65, the Commission for Population and Family Planning said, compared to just nine percent today.
Already, half of China’s over-60s live alone, a situation unthinkable before, when four generations would live under one roof. Full story...
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