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This is definitely not true. There was a decade of population growth control mechanisms in the decade before the official, universal one child policy. Over that
by nxmnxm99 5y ago
This is definitely not true. There was a decade of population growth control mechanisms in the decade before the official, universal one child policy. Over that decade (the 70s) China experienced an incredibly sharp reduction in fertility.
It’s likely that increasing socioeconomic wealth would have naturally followed that trajectory, but it’s unarguable that Chinas fertility policies accelerated the drop.
- H8crilA 5y agoI mean, I still don't see anything out of trend here between the 60s and the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#/media/File:Birth_rate_in_China.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#/media/File:B...
- JuettnerDistrib 5y agoIt's pretty obvious if you ignore the great leap backwards... I mean forward, coming down from ~40 births/1000 in the 1950s and 1960s to ~20 in the late 70s and after.
- H8crilA 5y agoYou mean to ignore the dip during the leap, ignore the spike in the 1960 (assuming this is the recovery from the leap), so that we would have ~flat line up to year 1970?
- JuettnerDistrib 5y agoYes, exactly!
- H8crilA 5y agoThat does make sense. I stand corrected, thanks!