"If you have one bowl of rice, and 69 children to feed, the best solution is to wear a condom next time."
The late 19s is China's most prosperous years, economy was improving, wars were settling, people were happy and obedient. It was the golden age of China's recent history. A safe and happy population also mean one thing: staggering increase in birth rate. Due to the rapid population growth and the not-as-rapid economy growth, a huge family soon become a problem. At that period of time, China's population reached a jaw-dropping 1.2 billion. Although economy growth was fast, it wasn't enough to feed all these mouth. Hence, the government feel that 1.2 billion is a sufficient amount of manpower, further increase would cause the economy to collapse. This is when the holy rule comes in. The One Child Policy.
The One Child Policy restricts child birth by limiting each couple with only one birth per family, and subsequent child would result in forced abortion if during gestation, or HUGE sum of fine if already given birth. Now let's do some maths. If from every 2 adults, one child is yield, and when the adults die, the change in number of people drop by half, from 2 to 1. Now from the 1.2 billion people, a single child yield would result in a half cut in population when the generation moves on (disregarding unmarried adults, LGBT and stagnant parents). To evaluate, the One Child Policy effectively reduce China's population size to 0.6 billion in 40 years or so.
The following is an extremely animated and fun graph interpretation of the very chim mathematical stuff described above. :]
- Xuchen W. 2014
The late 19s is China's most prosperous years, economy was improving, wars were settling, people were happy and obedient. It was the golden age of China's recent history. A safe and happy population also mean one thing: staggering increase in birth rate. Due to the rapid population growth and the not-as-rapid economy growth, a huge family soon become a problem. At that period of time, China's population reached a jaw-dropping 1.2 billion. Although economy growth was fast, it wasn't enough to feed all these mouth. Hence, the government feel that 1.2 billion is a sufficient amount of manpower, further increase would cause the economy to collapse. This is when the holy rule comes in. The One Child Policy.
The One Child Policy restricts child birth by limiting each couple with only one birth per family, and subsequent child would result in forced abortion if during gestation, or HUGE sum of fine if already given birth. Now let's do some maths. If from every 2 adults, one child is yield, and when the adults die, the change in number of people drop by half, from 2 to 1. Now from the 1.2 billion people, a single child yield would result in a half cut in population when the generation moves on (disregarding unmarried adults, LGBT and stagnant parents). To evaluate, the One Child Policy effectively reduce China's population size to 0.6 billion in 40 years or so.
The following is an extremely animated and fun graph interpretation of the very chim mathematical stuff described above. :]
The following is a boring list of the impact of One Child Policy :c
-has unquestionably caused fertility to decline more rapidly.
-rapid GDP growth has come better nutrition
-rising levels of education
-longer life expectancies
-higher living standards for the vast majority of the Chinese people
-environmental degradation and food security in the world’s most populous nation.
-“getting old before getting rich”
-economic costs of having more dependents and fewer workers in the population
-places a huge burden on single Chinese children at the bottom of the resulting “4-2-1” family structure (four grandparents, two parents and one child).
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