https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12063/production/_104772837_china_birthrate-nc.png https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12063/production...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12063/production/_104772837_china_birthrate-nc.png https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12063/production... China's birthrate did decline with the one child policy (1979). But it declined way more in the decade prior to the introduction of the one child policy. "晚、稀、少" : “late marriage, longer spacing, and fewer children” was a little known policy introduced in 1970 that encouraged late marriage and fewer births, and which had way bigger effects than the compulsory one child policy.