Daniel Goodkind
Biographic Data
| ID | 134011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Goodkind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodkind |
| SIGNATURE | GOODKIND D |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Census Bureau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3413-3085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The demographic impact and development benefits of meeting demand for family planning with modern contraceptive methods
BACKGROUND: Meeting demand for family planning can facilitate progress towards all major themes of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. Many policymakers have embraced a benchmark goal that at least 75% of the demand for family planning in all countries be satisfied with modern contraceptive methods by the year 2030. OBJECTIVE: This study examines the demographic impact (and …
If Science Had Come First: A Billion Person Fable for the Ages (A Reply to Comments)
The Astonishing Population Averted by China’s Birth Restrictions: Estimates, Nightmares, and Reprogrammed Ambitions
China launched an unprecedented program to control its population in 1971. Experts have dismissed the official estimate of 400 million births averted by this program as greatly exaggerated yet neglect to provide their own estimates. Counterfactual projections based on fertility declines in other countries suggest that China’s program-averted population numbered 360–520 million as of 2015. The low end of this range is based on Vietnam—China’s best…
Sex Selective Abortion
The claim that China's fertility restrictions contributed to the use of prenatal sex selection: A sceptical reappraisal
Most observers assume that China's fertility restrictions contribute to the use of prenatal sex selection. I question the logic and evidence underlying that assumption. Experts often stress that China's low fertility is largely voluntary, and that fertility restrictions are an unneeded safety valve. Others claim that China's '1.5-child' loophole, common throughout rural areas, reinforces son preference or intensifies prenatal sex discrimination b…
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. 2010. By SUSAN GREENHALGH. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. xv + 138. £22.95 or US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05571-1. Susan Gr
Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
Child underreporting is often neglected in studies of fertility and sex ratio imbalance in China. To improve estimates of these measures, I use intercensal comparisons to identify a rise in underreporting, which followed the increased enforcement and penalization under the birth planning system in 1991. A new triangulation of evidence indicates that about 19% of children at ages 0–4 were unreported in the 2000 census, more than double that of the…
China's missing children: The 2000 census underreporting surprise
We compare the age and sex structure of China's 2000 population census to an estimate of that structure derived from a projection from the 1990 census. Based on China's own official estimates of demographic change, our intercensal analysis indicates a shortfall in enumeration of more than a quarter of all children under age 5 and an eighth of those between 5 and 9, a total of nearly 37 million children missing in the 2000 census. We show that the…
China's Floating Population: Definitions, Data and Recent Findings
Among migrants in China, one of the most difficult groups to define and measure is that referred to as the floating population ( liudong renkou ), a rapidly growing population concentrated largely in urban areas. But who belongs to this floating population? Although this term conjures up images of unsettled persons lacking permanent residence, it is often used ambiguously or denotes distinctly different groups of people. This paper discusses thes…
The North Korean Famine and Its Demographic Impact
The North Korean famine began in 1995 and its ill effects, while peaking in the late 1990s,undoubtedly linger. Recent conjectures on excess deaths caused by the famine range widely from about 200,000 to 3 million or more. This article assesses the demographic impact of the famine with greater rigor than has previously been attempted and describes the unique setting in which the famine occurred. The analysis begins with a pair of population projec…
Reforming the Old-Age Security System in Vietnam
Do Parents Prefer Sons in North Korea
Son preference in South Korea is stronger than anywhere else in the world, yet little is known about such preference in North Korea. Simple indicators of son preference in North Korea are constructed from its 1993 population census and a 1998 survey of child nutrition (conducted in the wake of the recent famine). These indicators include sex ratio at birth, sex ratios of infant and child mortality, and sex ratios of child malnutrition. North Kore…
Should prenatal sex selection be restricted? Ethical questions and their implications for research and policy
Sex-selective abortion following prenatal sex testing is so blatantly discriminatory that many observers have, understandably, called on governments to condemn and restrict the practice. Yet ethical questions that counterbalance these sentiments have been neglected. Restricting the practice would seem to interfere with reproductive freedoms and maternal empowerment, the twin goals adopted at the recent Cairo conference. The restrictions may also …
China: The Many Facets of Demographic Change
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
According to Guttentag and Secord (1983), the relative balance of power between the sexes is determined by dynamic interactions of dyadic and structural power. Dyadic power accrues to whichever sex is relatively rare owing to the larger proportion of potential relationships available to it, the demographic dimensions of which are commonly known as a marriage squeeze. Structural power refers to control over economic, political or legal resources: …
On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination
Daniel Goodkind, On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination?, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 111-125
Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore: New Concerns for Child Quality amidst Multicultural Modernity
This study examines lunar births by season and birth order and lunar births among intermarried Chinese mothers and fathers in Singapore. Lunar birth timing increased during 1970-90 in Singapore as modernization increased. Modernization is not expected to weaken the influence of lunar birth timing in the future. Staggered births create problems for the educational system. The lunar birth pattern in Singapore included a baby boom during the Year of…
State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations
Journal Article State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations Get access Daniel Goodkind Daniel Goodkind University of Michigan Direct all correspondence to Daniel Goodkind, Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 2, Dec…
The Significance of Demographic Triviality: Minority Status and Zodiacal Fertility Timing Among Chinese Malaysians
The hypothesis that minority status creates social tensions that affect fertility behaviour attracted much attention during the late 1960s and 1970s, but then disappeared after 1980. This sudden exit was due to a combination of methodological difficulties in distilling the independent effects of minority status from other socio-economic factors, weaknesses or ambiguities in the empirical record, and other difficulties. This paper examines a natur…
Vietnam's One-or-Two-Child Policy in Action
VIETNAM FORMALLY INTRODUCED in late 1988 a comprehensive fertility policy encouraging parents to have no more than two children. Billboards that advertise the official family-size goal of or two children (mot hoac hai con) are now ubiquitous in much of the country. Like its more severe onechild counterpart in China, the Vietnamese policy was formulated to stem the current rapid growth in population that, it is feared, may derail national developm…
Rising Gender Inequality in Vietnam Since Reunification
Two general schools of thought offer contrasting visions concerning which kinds of social systems may best ameliorate social inequalities based on class, race, or gender. The modernization perspective holds that development results in the creation of laws, institutions, and opportunities that are conducive to the erosion of such inequalities. The opposing Marxian viewpoint maintains that inequality is rooted in private ownership, the elimination …
Abortion in Vietnam: Measurements, Puzzles, and Concerns
This report summarizes current knowledge about abortion in Vietnam, drawing upon government statistics, survey data, and fieldwork undertaken by the author in Vietnam throughout 1993 and part of 1994. The official total abortion rate in Vietnam in 1992 was about 2.5 per woman, the highest in Asia and worrisome for a country with a still-high total fertility rate of 3.7 children per woman. Vietnamese provinces exhibited substantial variation in bo…
New zodiacal influences on chinese family formation: Taiwan, 1976
Although Chinese folklore holds that the Dragon Year is an auspicious time to have a birth, notable increases in Chinese fertility in Dragon Years did not occur before 1976. Demographic explanations for the belated occurrence of this phenomenon rely on the notion of natural fertility: that is, couples’ lack of modem contraception had kept such decisions outside the realm of choice. The decomposition performed in this article, however, shows that …
Creating New Traditions in Modern Chinese Populations: Aiming for Birth in the Year of the Dragon
The dragon appears every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac and the Dragon Year is considered favorable to new business marriages and births. In recent Dragon Years of 1976 and 1988 fertility rates surged among the Chinese in Taiwan Hong Kong especially in Singapore and Malaysia (24- 26%). However this phenomenon did not occur in the Peoples Republic of China and before 1976 such preference had not been found in any Chinese population. The Dragon Yea…
On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination
Daniel Goodkind, On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination?, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 111-125
Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
Child underreporting is often neglected in studies of fertility and sex ratio imbalance in China. To improve estimates of these measures, I use intercensal comparisons to identify a rise in underreporting, which followed the increased enforcement and penalization under the birth planning system in 1991. A new triangulation of evidence indicates that about 19% of children at ages 0–4 were unreported in the 2000 census, more than double that of the…
China's Floating Population: Definitions, Data and Recent Findings
Among migrants in China, one of the most difficult groups to define and measure is that referred to as the floating population ( liudong renkou ), a rapidly growing population concentrated largely in urban areas. But who belongs to this floating population? Although this term conjures up images of unsettled persons lacking permanent residence, it is often used ambiguously or denotes distinctly different groups of people. This paper discusses thes…
China's missing children: The 2000 census underreporting surprise
We compare the age and sex structure of China's 2000 population census to an estimate of that structure derived from a projection from the 1990 census. Based on China's own official estimates of demographic change, our intercensal analysis indicates a shortfall in enumeration of more than a quarter of all children under age 5 and an eighth of those between 5 and 9, a total of nearly 37 million children missing in the 2000 census. We show that the…
Abortion in Vietnam: Measurements, Puzzles, and Concerns
This report summarizes current knowledge about abortion in Vietnam, drawing upon government statistics, survey data, and fieldwork undertaken by the author in Vietnam throughout 1993 and part of 1994. The official total abortion rate in Vietnam in 1992 was about 2.5 per woman, the highest in Asia and worrisome for a country with a still-high total fertility rate of 3.7 children per woman. Vietnamese provinces exhibited substantial variation in bo…
Vietnam's One-or-Two-Child Policy in Action
VIETNAM FORMALLY INTRODUCED in late 1988 a comprehensive fertility policy encouraging parents to have no more than two children. Billboards that advertise the official family-size goal of or two children (mot hoac hai con) are now ubiquitous in much of the country. Like its more severe onechild counterpart in China, the Vietnamese policy was formulated to stem the current rapid growth in population that, it is feared, may derail national developm…
The North Korean Famine and Its Demographic Impact
The North Korean famine began in 1995 and its ill effects, while peaking in the late 1990s,undoubtedly linger. Recent conjectures on excess deaths caused by the famine range widely from about 200,000 to 3 million or more. This article assesses the demographic impact of the famine with greater rigor than has previously been attempted and describes the unique setting in which the famine occurred. The analysis begins with a pair of population projec…
The Astonishing Population Averted by China’s Birth Restrictions: Estimates, Nightmares, and Reprogrammed Ambitions
China launched an unprecedented program to control its population in 1971. Experts have dismissed the official estimate of 400 million births averted by this program as greatly exaggerated yet neglect to provide their own estimates. Counterfactual projections based on fertility declines in other countries suggest that China’s program-averted population numbered 360–520 million as of 2015. The low end of this range is based on Vietnam—China’s best…
Rising Gender Inequality in Vietnam Since Reunification
Two general schools of thought offer contrasting visions concerning which kinds of social systems may best ameliorate social inequalities based on class, race, or gender. The modernization perspective holds that development results in the creation of laws, institutions, and opportunities that are conducive to the erosion of such inequalities. The opposing Marxian viewpoint maintains that inequality is rooted in private ownership, the elimination …
Creating New Traditions in Modern Chinese Populations: Aiming for Birth in the Year of the Dragon
The dragon appears every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac and the Dragon Year is considered favorable to new business marriages and births. In recent Dragon Years of 1976 and 1988 fertility rates surged among the Chinese in Taiwan Hong Kong especially in Singapore and Malaysia (24- 26%). However this phenomenon did not occur in the Peoples Republic of China and before 1976 such preference had not been found in any Chinese population. The Dragon Yea…
Should prenatal sex selection be restricted? Ethical questions and their implications for research and policy
Sex-selective abortion following prenatal sex testing is so blatantly discriminatory that many observers have, understandably, called on governments to condemn and restrict the practice. Yet ethical questions that counterbalance these sentiments have been neglected. Restricting the practice would seem to interfere with reproductive freedoms and maternal empowerment, the twin goals adopted at the recent Cairo conference. The restrictions may also …
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
According to Guttentag and Secord (1983), the relative balance of power between the sexes is determined by dynamic interactions of dyadic and structural power. Dyadic power accrues to whichever sex is relatively rare owing to the larger proportion of potential relationships available to it, the demographic dimensions of which are commonly known as a marriage squeeze. Structural power refers to control over economic, political or legal resources: …
New zodiacal influences on chinese family formation: Taiwan, 1976
Although Chinese folklore holds that the Dragon Year is an auspicious time to have a birth, notable increases in Chinese fertility in Dragon Years did not occur before 1976. Demographic explanations for the belated occurrence of this phenomenon rely on the notion of natural fertility: that is, couples’ lack of modem contraception had kept such decisions outside the realm of choice. The decomposition performed in this article, however, shows that …
Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore: New Concerns for Child Quality amidst Multicultural Modernity
This study examines lunar births by season and birth order and lunar births among intermarried Chinese mothers and fathers in Singapore. Lunar birth timing increased during 1970-90 in Singapore as modernization increased. Modernization is not expected to weaken the influence of lunar birth timing in the future. Staggered births create problems for the educational system. The lunar birth pattern in Singapore included a baby boom during the Year of…
The claim that China's fertility restrictions contributed to the use of prenatal sex selection: A sceptical reappraisal
Most observers assume that China's fertility restrictions contribute to the use of prenatal sex selection. I question the logic and evidence underlying that assumption. Experts often stress that China's low fertility is largely voluntary, and that fertility restrictions are an unneeded safety valve. Others claim that China's '1.5-child' loophole, common throughout rural areas, reinforces son preference or intensifies prenatal sex discrimination b…
Do Parents Prefer Sons in North Korea
Son preference in South Korea is stronger than anywhere else in the world, yet little is known about such preference in North Korea. Simple indicators of son preference in North Korea are constructed from its 1993 population census and a 1998 survey of child nutrition (conducted in the wake of the recent famine). These indicators include sex ratio at birth, sex ratios of infant and child mortality, and sex ratios of child malnutrition. North Kore…
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
The Significance of Demographic Triviality: Minority Status and Zodiacal Fertility Timing Among Chinese Malaysians
The hypothesis that minority status creates social tensions that affect fertility behaviour attracted much attention during the late 1960s and 1970s, but then disappeared after 1980. This sudden exit was due to a combination of methodological difficulties in distilling the independent effects of minority status from other socio-economic factors, weaknesses or ambiguities in the empirical record, and other difficulties. This paper examines a natur…
State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations
Journal Article State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations Get access Daniel Goodkind Daniel Goodkind University of Michigan Direct all correspondence to Daniel Goodkind, Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 2, Dec…
Reforming the Old-Age Security System in Vietnam
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. 2010. By SUSAN GREENHALGH. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. xv + 138. £22.95 or US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05571-1. Susan Gr
Creating New Traditions in Modern Chinese Populations: Aiming for Birth in the Year of the Dragon
The dragon appears every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac and the Dragon Year is considered favorable to new business marriages and births. In recent Dragon Years of 1976 and 1988 fertility rates surged among the Chinese in Taiwan Hong Kong especially in Singapore and Malaysia (24- 26%). However this phenomenon did not occur in the Peoples Republic of China and before 1976 such preference had not been found in any Chinese population. The Dragon Yea…
New zodiacal influences on chinese family formation: Taiwan, 1976
Although Chinese folklore holds that the Dragon Year is an auspicious time to have a birth, notable increases in Chinese fertility in Dragon Years did not occur before 1976. Demographic explanations for the belated occurrence of this phenomenon rely on the notion of natural fertility: that is, couples’ lack of modem contraception had kept such decisions outside the realm of choice. The decomposition performed in this article, however, shows that …
Abortion in Vietnam: Measurements, Puzzles, and Concerns
This report summarizes current knowledge about abortion in Vietnam, drawing upon government statistics, survey data, and fieldwork undertaken by the author in Vietnam throughout 1993 and part of 1994. The official total abortion rate in Vietnam in 1992 was about 2.5 per woman, the highest in Asia and worrisome for a country with a still-high total fertility rate of 3.7 children per woman. Vietnamese provinces exhibited substantial variation in bo…
The Significance of Demographic Triviality: Minority Status and Zodiacal Fertility Timing Among Chinese Malaysians
The hypothesis that minority status creates social tensions that affect fertility behaviour attracted much attention during the late 1960s and 1970s, but then disappeared after 1980. This sudden exit was due to a combination of methodological difficulties in distilling the independent effects of minority status from other socio-economic factors, weaknesses or ambiguities in the empirical record, and other difficulties. This paper examines a natur…
Vietnam's One-or-Two-Child Policy in Action
VIETNAM FORMALLY INTRODUCED in late 1988 a comprehensive fertility policy encouraging parents to have no more than two children. Billboards that advertise the official family-size goal of or two children (mot hoac hai con) are now ubiquitous in much of the country. Like its more severe onechild counterpart in China, the Vietnamese policy was formulated to stem the current rapid growth in population that, it is feared, may derail national developm…
Rising Gender Inequality in Vietnam Since Reunification
Two general schools of thought offer contrasting visions concerning which kinds of social systems may best ameliorate social inequalities based on class, race, or gender. The modernization perspective holds that development results in the creation of laws, institutions, and opportunities that are conducive to the erosion of such inequalities. The opposing Marxian viewpoint maintains that inequality is rooted in private ownership, the elimination …
On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination
Daniel Goodkind, On Substituting Sex Preference Strategies in East Asia: Does Prenatal Sex Selection Reduce Postnatal Discrimination?, Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 111-125
Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore: New Concerns for Child Quality amidst Multicultural Modernity
This study examines lunar births by season and birth order and lunar births among intermarried Chinese mothers and fathers in Singapore. Lunar birth timing increased during 1970-90 in Singapore as modernization increased. Modernization is not expected to weaken the influence of lunar birth timing in the future. Staggered births create problems for the educational system. The lunar birth pattern in Singapore included a baby boom during the Year of…
State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations
Journal Article State Agendas, Local Sentiments: Vietnamese Wedding Practices amidst Socialist Transformations Get access Daniel Goodkind Daniel Goodkind University of Michigan Direct all correspondence to Daniel Goodkind, Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 2, Dec…
China: The Many Facets of Demographic Change
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
The Vietnamese Double Marriage Squeeze
According to Guttentag and Secord (1983), the relative balance of power between the sexes is determined by dynamic interactions of dyadic and structural power. Dyadic power accrues to whichever sex is relatively rare owing to the larger proportion of potential relationships available to it, the demographic dimensions of which are commonly known as a marriage squeeze. Structural power refers to control over economic, political or legal resources: …
Reforming the Old-Age Security System in Vietnam
Do Parents Prefer Sons in North Korea
Son preference in South Korea is stronger than anywhere else in the world, yet little is known about such preference in North Korea. Simple indicators of son preference in North Korea are constructed from its 1993 population census and a 1998 survey of child nutrition (conducted in the wake of the recent famine). These indicators include sex ratio at birth, sex ratios of infant and child mortality, and sex ratios of child malnutrition. North Kore…
Should prenatal sex selection be restricted? Ethical questions and their implications for research and policy
Sex-selective abortion following prenatal sex testing is so blatantly discriminatory that many observers have, understandably, called on governments to condemn and restrict the practice. Yet ethical questions that counterbalance these sentiments have been neglected. Restricting the practice would seem to interfere with reproductive freedoms and maternal empowerment, the twin goals adopted at the recent Cairo conference. The restrictions may also …
The North Korean Famine and Its Demographic Impact
The North Korean famine began in 1995 and its ill effects, while peaking in the late 1990s,undoubtedly linger. Recent conjectures on excess deaths caused by the famine range widely from about 200,000 to 3 million or more. This article assesses the demographic impact of the famine with greater rigor than has previously been attempted and describes the unique setting in which the famine occurred. The analysis begins with a pair of population projec…
China's Floating Population: Definitions, Data and Recent Findings
Among migrants in China, one of the most difficult groups to define and measure is that referred to as the floating population ( liudong renkou ), a rapidly growing population concentrated largely in urban areas. But who belongs to this floating population? Although this term conjures up images of unsettled persons lacking permanent residence, it is often used ambiguously or denotes distinctly different groups of people. This paper discusses thes…
China's missing children: The 2000 census underreporting surprise
We compare the age and sex structure of China's 2000 population census to an estimate of that structure derived from a projection from the 1990 census. Based on China's own official estimates of demographic change, our intercensal analysis indicates a shortfall in enumeration of more than a quarter of all children under age 5 and an eighth of those between 5 and 9, a total of nearly 37 million children missing in the 2000 census. We show that the…
Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
Child underreporting is often neglected in studies of fertility and sex ratio imbalance in China. To improve estimates of these measures, I use intercensal comparisons to identify a rise in underreporting, which followed the increased enforcement and penalization under the birth planning system in 1991. A new triangulation of evidence indicates that about 19% of children at ages 0–4 were unreported in the 2000 census, more than double that of the…
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. 2010. By SUSAN GREENHALGH. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. xv + 138. £22.95 or US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05571-1. Susan Gr
Sex Selective Abortion
The claim that China's fertility restrictions contributed to the use of prenatal sex selection: A sceptical reappraisal
Most observers assume that China's fertility restrictions contribute to the use of prenatal sex selection. I question the logic and evidence underlying that assumption. Experts often stress that China's low fertility is largely voluntary, and that fertility restrictions are an unneeded safety valve. Others claim that China's '1.5-child' loophole, common throughout rural areas, reinforces son preference or intensifies prenatal sex discrimination b…
The Astonishing Population Averted by China’s Birth Restrictions: Estimates, Nightmares, and Reprogrammed Ambitions
China launched an unprecedented program to control its population in 1971. Experts have dismissed the official estimate of 400 million births averted by this program as greatly exaggerated yet neglect to provide their own estimates. Counterfactual projections based on fertility declines in other countries suggest that China’s program-averted population numbered 360–520 million as of 2015. The low end of this range is based on Vietnam—China’s best…
The demographic impact and development benefits of meeting demand for family planning with modern contraceptive methods
BACKGROUND: Meeting demand for family planning can facilitate progress towards all major themes of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. Many policymakers have embraced a benchmark goal that at least 75% of the demand for family planning in all countries be satisfied with modern contraceptive methods by the year 2030. OBJECTIVE: This study examines the demographic impact (and …
If Science Had Come First: A Billion Person Fable for the Ages (A Reply to Comments)
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