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Birth rate in China, 1950–2015. 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.
After Mao died in 1976, the policy evolved into the one-child policy in 1979, when a group of senior leaders decided that existing birth restrictions were insufficient to cope with what they saw to be an overpopulation crisis. [4] [7] But the one-child policy allowed many exceptions and ethnic minorities below 10 million people were exempt. [2]
China said that its population had ... on the “one-child policy,” which was in force from 1980 to 2015. While the one-child policy was effective in curbing population growth, critics say it ...
The country officially ended its “one-child policy” in 2016, a measure that had been in place for decades to control the country’s population growth. However, the policy resulted in a skewed ...
Although China abandoned its 35-year-old one-child policy in 2015, it has struggled to get the birth rate up, particularly as the period saw rural people stream into the cities for jobs.
"Population planning after the one-child policy: shifting modes of political steering in China." Journal of Contemporary China 28.117 (2019): 348-366 online [ dead link ] . Atwell, William S. "Time, Money, and the Weather: Ming China and the 'Great Depression' of the Mid-Fifteenth Century", Journal of Asian Studies (2002), 61#1: 83–113 ...
Since the shift to a three-child policy in 2021, Beijing has been running national campaigns to foster a “pro-birth culture” as China’s population shrinks and grays at an alarming rate.
During the past decades ethnic minorities have experienced higher growth rates than the majority Han population, because they are not under the one-child policy. Their proportion of the population in China has grown from 6.1% in 1953, to 8.04% in 1990, 8.41% in 2000, and 8.49% in 2010.