Population Dynamics and Policy in the People's Republic of China

Bibliographic Data

ID9759218
AuthorsLee-Jay Cho (corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume476
Issue1
Pages111-127
Publication date1984-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716284476001009
PMID11616559
OpenAlexW2099522397
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

This article reviews recent changes in population policy and demographic trends in the People's Republic of China. Recently available estimates of birth and death rates for the last several decades are examined in the context of political events and disruptions in China. China heralds the world's most comprehensive and perhaps most effective birth control program, aimed at stabilizing the Chinese population at 1.2 billion by the turn of the century, and has made remarkable progress in controlling population growth during the last decade. The dramatic fertility decline in recent years is analyzed and compared with the trends in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. The extent of China's fertility decline is found to be unequaled anywhere in the world. A potential conflict between promotion of agricultural production by individual families through the new responsibility system and the birth control policy is also discussed

Birth control · Birth rate · China · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Political science · Politics · Population · Population control · Population growth · Population momentum · Promotion (chess · Research methodology · Sociology · Sub-replacement fertility · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

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