Friday, October 30, 2015

How China's population has changed since 1950

  1. I think it is important to note that China would not be successful today without having gone to a 1 child policy. However, only 300 million (equal to the U.S.) have made it to middle class or above. So, they still have 250 to 300 million people with tuberculosis and then another 800 million people very poor and not very well educated.

  2. How China's population has changed since 1950 -...

    www.washingtonpost.com/.../china-population-growthCached
    From 1950 through the 1970s, children 10 or younger constituted a larger percentage of China’s expanding population than any other age group
    World

    How China’s population has changed since 1950

    China announced plans Thursday to abandon its controversial “one-child policy” and allow all couples to have two children. The change, more than 30 years after the policy was enacted, came after a meeting of the Communist Party's leadership and amid growing pressures from a rapidly aging population. Story: China lifts one-child policy amid worries over graying population
    By Laris Karklis and Richard Johnson
    Oct. 29, 2015
    THE CHANGING AGE OF CHINA
    Percentage of population by age bracket
    Male
    Female
    From 1950 through the 1970s, children 10 or younger constituted a larger percentage of China’s expanding population than any other age group. By 2060, 70-year-olds will form the largest share.
    Age
    100 years old
    50
    0
    1950
    1960
    1970
    1980
    1990
    2000
    5%
    5%
    5%
    5%
    Age
    100 years old
    70
    50
    0
    2010
    2020
    2030
    2040
    2050
    2060
    5%
    5%
    5%
    5%
    NUMBER OF CHILDREN BORN PER WOMAN
    Fertility rate up to 2010
    China
    1962

    6.1
    The Communist Party of China and the State Council issue instructions advocating birth control.
    World
    5.0
    1975
    China’s one-child policy begins.
    2015
    U.S.
    China announces plans to abandon its one-child policy
    3.3
    2.5
    2.0
    2.0
    1.7
    1.9
    PROJECTED
    1950
    1970
    1990
    2010
    2030
    2050
    2070
    2090
    TOTAL POPULATION
    DEATHS OF ONLY CHILDREN
    in thousands
    in billions
    Between 1950 and 2010, China’s total population grew 150 percent. It is projected to peak in 2030.
    The estimated number of only children older than 10 who die or will die annually in China, leaving their parents childless.
    553
    1.5 (2030)
    1.35
    1.1
    346
    0.5
    225
    Projected
    population
    182
    138
    104
    78
    2010
    ’15
    ’20
    ’25
    ’30
    ’40
    ’50
    1950
    2010
    ‘50
    ‘75
    2100
    Source: UN World Population Prospects, 2015 edition
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