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The practice, traditionally referred to as population control, had historically been implemented mainly with the goal of increasing population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the environment and political stability led to efforts to reduce population growth rates in many ...
To address this confusion, the government issued Resolution 47 in 2005 which stated that "to sustain high economic growth, Viet Nam needs to pursue a population control policy until it has become an industrialized country." However at this time, the population had already reached the goal of having a total fertility rate below the replacement ...
In the mid-1960s, when global movements for birth control emerged, Chinese delegates expressed their opposition toward population control. In the first UN-organized World Population Conference held in Bucharest in 1969, they claimed that it was an imperialist agenda that Western countries imposed on Third World countries, and that population ...
China's population is projected to crash 55% by the turn of the next century. Italy's will sink 41%, and Brazil's will drop 23%. But helped by immigration, the U.S. should see an increase of 23%.
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Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population. It simply refers to the act of limiting the size of an animal population so that it remains manageable, as opposed to the act of protecting a species from excessive rates of extinction, which is referred to as conservation biology. [1] [2] [3]
Compulsory or semi-compulsory sterilization, such as for token material compensation or easing of penalties, [241] has also been implemented in many countries as a form of population control. [242] [3] Another choice-based approach is financial compensation or other benefits by the state offered to people who voluntarily undergo sterilization ...
All countries – Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development; Asia, Caribbean, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Middle East ...