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The most significant population planning system in the world was China's one-child policy, in which, with various exceptions, having more than one child was discouraged. Unauthorized births were punished by fines, although there were also allegations of illegal forced abortions and forced sterilization . [ 57 ]
[2] [3] [4] As a result, the population increase rate in China remained very high. [17] In the period prior to the Cultural Revolution, China sought to promote birth planning through art, entertainment, and posters. [9]: 102–111 Trade unions, factories, the All-China Women's Federation, and local organizations hosted birth planning exhibitions.
The National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC; 2003–2013), formerly the National Family Planning Commission (NFPC; 1981–2003), was a cabinet-level executive department under the State Council, responsible for population and family planning policy in the People's Republic of China.
China's more than thirty-year-old one-child policy is drawing to a close. On January 1, 2016, China's one couple, two-child policy will go into effect. The country's lawmakers passed an amendment ...
China will begin polling 1.4 million people on Wednesday in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the ...
The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child.
China’s declining and aging population — last year it was overtaken by India as the world’s most populous country — has raised questions about whether it can overtake the U.S. as the world ...
By one estimate, in 2024 China's population stood at about 1.408 billion, down from the 1.412 billion recorded in the 2020 census. [11] According to the 2020 census, 91.11% of the population was Han Chinese, and 8.89% were minorities. China's population growth rate is −0.15%, ranking 159th in the world.