Does anyone know the population % decrease since the start of the family planning programs in India and China?
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The populations of China and India have not decrease, however their growth rate has.  That is to say they are increasing in population, but by a smaller amount every year.  This is generally true world wide.  Few countries have population decreases... mostly limited to advanced countries.  You can go to the US Census Bureau link and select the country of interest to see the yearly populations and the ten-year trends:\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html\n\nI don't know when they started the planning programs but I seem to remember China starting in the 80's.
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Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India\nRaghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo \n\nEconometrica, 2004, vol. 72, issue 5, pages 1409-1443 \n\nAbstract: This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990's, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local public goods in rural areas. Using a dataset we collected on 265 Village Councils in West Bengal and Rajasthan, we compare the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved Village Councils. We show that the reservation of a council seat affects the types of public goods provided. Specifically, leaders invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders. Copyright The Econometric Society 2004. \n\nView citations in EconPapers \n\nDownloads: (external link)\nhttp://hdl.handle.ne ... 68-0262.2004.00539.x link to full text (text/html) \nAccess to full text is restricted to subscribers. \n\nRelated works:\nThis item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. \n\nOrdering information: This journal article can be ordered from\nhttp://www.blackwell ... mb.asp?ref=0012-9682\njnlinfo@blackwellpublishers.co.uk \n\nAccess Statistics for this article
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Overpopulation is a very serious problem. Populations grow exponentially and any environment eventually reaches its carrying capacity, the limit at which the available resources can sustain a population.  An artificially imposed limit is probably not the answer, as it can have destabilizing cultural affects, such as those seen in China where those limits have been tried.  Actually the best answer might be addressing poverty.  Wealthier populations actually tend to reproduce less.  There are many reason for this, including education and access to birth control methods.  Mostly, it is because children cease to be seen as an economic resource.  In agrarian cultures, children are basically cheap labor and so there is an economic incentive to procreate more.
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Lack of birth control planning in most poor countries.
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India — Population: 1,080,264,388\n\nAge structure:   \n0-14 years: 30.8% (male 173,478,760/female 163,852,827) \n15-64 years: 64.3% (male 363,876,219/female 340,181,764) \n65 years and over: 4.9% (male 27,258,020/female 26,704,405) (2006 est.)  \n\nMedian age:   \ntotal: 24.9 years \nmale: 24.9 years \nfemale: 24.9 years (2006 est.)
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Overpopulation is one of the worst problems in India. India has very high Gross Domestic Product value but beacuse of overpopulation India's per capita income is quite low. Population growth according to some recent research can also be positive for India. Europe, Japan and China are losing people and that will create a workforce shortage. Number of elderly people would increase and they will demand their pensions. That would actually be bad for their economy. However, I believe that India will overcome all this challenges, like it always has. For example - countless number of invasions and tremendous ethnic diversity.
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He's about the 500th Indian looking for a woman on here, what he should be doing instead is being a little more pro-active in WHY women are so hard to come by in his country. Two long-term epidemic problems in India, female infanticide and dowry killing, have made the male-female ratio extremely skewed in the age 19 to 30 crowd. By killing their little girls, unborn baby girls, and young women, they have made their bed and now must sleep in it...alone.
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generally, yes.  this is primarily the result of better nutrition and healthcare, as is most evident in the chinese population.  whereas 2 or three generations ago, the majority of chinese lived mostly on rice and were quite small, with the introduction of greater variety into their diet they grow tremendously.\nso yes, people are getting taller, and it is probably more evident in countries that until recently were very poor.
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maybe find some stats on how teen pregnancy and STD rates have dropped in the past few years as schools have taken a bigger part in educating kids.
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You are so hot AND you think about this stuff.\nAnything is possible.\nThe whole country changed from the actions of a handful of people.\nHave you seen some of the quarantine plans to deal with Bird Flu?\nThere are theories that the very top of the power pyramid want population control.\nThat really means a reduction in world population by 80%\nNever allow implanted tracking chips.\nOh sure in 50 years (or less) it may be called money.
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Nazi Germany\nIndiana(USA) in the 19th Century,including the compulsory sterilisation of the mentally ill and 'undesirables'\nBy 1917, fifteen US states had eugenics laws to sterilise epileptics, the mentally ill and regular criminals. On the agenda of the Third International Congress in 1932 was the 'problem' of African-Americans which, according to the delegates, revealed a need to sterilise to 'cut off bad stock'. At this meeting were several Nazis, including Dr Ernst Rudin, who had been enabled to attend by the Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line, owned by the Harriman and Bush families. On returning to Germany, Rudin, who was funded by the Rockefellers, supervised the policy of sterilizing those who were retarded, deaf, blind or alcoholics.\n\nIndonesia\n\nIndia\n\nIn Germany they wanted what they called a pure race of people\n\nIn any country, rapid population growth places a strain on the available resources, but in a developing country like India, many resources are already scarce. A quickly regenerating population exacerbates shortages of food and water and ensures that the nation’s long-term growth will be hampered by a less healthy therefore less productive work force, a greater demand for natural resource consumption, and a higher level of environmental degradation resulting from such consumption.\n\nChina has a one child policy, good article in the below link. Girls receive less care and attention than boys in many Chinese homes, reducing the chance of survival of girls beyond their first birthday.\n\nThe primary target is to reduce the total birth rate to below the replacement rate, which, after many years of endeavor, has been achieved in China. The second target should be zero population growth, which will take some time in China.\n\nIn the process of attaining zero growth,   first, in 100 years, to strive to reduce the population to 800 million or lower, and no higher than 1 billion; second, to further reduce the population to around 300 million within two hundred years, at most 500 million. Only with a population of 300-500 million, can the quality of life and living environment be set at an ideal level, he said.\n\nTo achieve the first century’s target, the total birth rate must be further and rapidly reduced, and maintained at a rate of 0.16 percent. If from now on, every couple were to give birth to one child, the total birth rate would quickly drop below 0.16% and keep falling. In 34 years, the rate would be 0.1%. At this rate, 100 years from now, the population would be reduced to 400 million. \n\nBecause of the cultural and economic incentives for male children, female children are more likely to be aborted and become victims of infanticide. In 1995, there were 1,166 boys born for every girl (Scharping 290). In 1994, there were 1,211; in 1993, there were 1,213. These numbers add up over time, leading to a population of many unmarried men.\n\nChina, implemented with the help and support of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) coercive population control measures aimed at limiting the number of children in urban areas to no more than one per a woman's fertile years (two children in rural areas). \n\nEven India is rapidly approaching the point reached by all developed countries already, where the total fertility rate drops below the level of slightly more than two children per family that guarantees stable population levels.  India's TFR has approached 2.8 and is falling rapidly, with the trend being that within just a few years it will be below the TFR required to maintain its population.\n\nThey seem to have the best strategy in place right now, but of course most of us don't agree with it although if individuals don't control themselves and the number of children they have then there will be over population.
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That's true especially in highly developed countries since they are not replacing their population as fast as they are dying out.  Most of them have 2 kids at the most when several decades ago they would have 3-4 kids per family. When you go to these countries, you will hardly see any kids around. Kinda creepy if you ask me.
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im not sure but have some information that might be helpful for u\n China , as everyone knows Chines r too fast in technolgy,so they must b using computers and thier populations is up to 1.1 billion\nand than INDIA,, indian r too fast in software,and whole the world knows about it.and they cant b doing software well without a computer, right,a nd Indian`s populations was very near to 1 billion in 1997,maybe now its 1 billion\nand the 3rd u can consider USA,,the whole states of america..:-? right
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forget about all these predictions. just try to feed your population and make sure no one is died of starvation and malnutrition.India and China are in the same situation as they both have a large population to feed and a large country to run.
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Usually the family lives in poverty.\n\n"Fertility industry takes off in China; doctors concerned about abuses\n(AFP)\n\n29 March 2005 \n\n\n\nBEIJING - It is considered a slow day at the Peking University Third Hospital in China’s capital, but the fertility clinic’s waiting room and hallways are overflowing with women seeking help.\n\n\nSome have travelled far from the countryside, where an infertile woman is looked upon with pity. One young woman’s husband divorced her after she failed to conceive three years into the marriage. Others, including urban career women, appear too ashamed or embarrassed to speak.\n\nSlowly but surely, barren women in China are realizing there is hope out there and they do not have to helplessly suffer the intense stigma of being childless in a society that places supreme importance on having kids.\n\n“In China, the responsibility is often placed on the women. In the past, couples who can’t have kids either adopt or divorce,” says Qiao Jie, director of gynecology and obstetrics at Third Hospital, China’s biggest authorized fertility center and its first to produce a test-tube baby.\n\n“Now, more and more people are becoming open to fertility treatment. There are more than 200 reproduction centers in China, but this is not enough to meet the demand.”\n\nUnmonitored sector\n\nStatistics from China’s Ministry of Health indicate more than 3,000 test-tube babies, or babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), have been born in China since the country’s first successful case in 1988, according to state media.\n\nDoctors such as Qiao, however, believe many more such babies have been born through IVF or other fertility treatment, such as inter uterus insemination as well as fertility drugs.\n\nThe industry is believed to be huge.\n\nStatistics are hard to come by because the sector is largely unmonitored, but more than 10 million Chinese families need artificial fertilization, according to Xinhua news agency.\n\nMany of them are undergoing fertility treatment, which is much more affordable in China than overseas.\n\n“There’s a huge demand,” says Zhao Lixin, deputy director of the reproduction center in east China’s Shandong Province Hospital.\n\n“There is a Sino-US joint-venture hospital in Shanghai which treats more couples than any other in China. Just that hospital alone probably helped conceive 3,000 babies.”\n\nIncreased public awareness is one key reason spurring couples to seek treatment.\n\nInfertility in rise\n\nChinese women, like women in Western countries, are also delaying marriage, although not by as long, leading to problems becoming pregnant.\n\nStressful and unhealthy lifestyles linked to China’s dramatic socio-economic changes -- including obesity, drinking, smoking and environmental problems -- have also hiked infertility rates, experts say.\n\nMost experts believe the percentage of Chinese couples suffering from infertility is rising and is around 10 percent of total couples.\n\nIn China, the success rate for fertility treatment -- measured by whether the women get pregnant -- is around 35 percent for IVF, on par with Western countries, doctors say.\n\nIt costs around 3,000 yuan (361 dollars) to have an assisted insemination -- insemination of sperm into the ovary -- and 20,000 yuan (2,400 dollars) to have in vitro fertilization, where the egg and sperm are fertilized in a lab, with the embryo then inserted into the woman.\n\nThe price tags are prohibitive for most people -- worth several or many times their annual salary -- but an increasing number of Chinese families are able to afford treatment.\n\nCapitalizing on the demand, many unauthorized clinics with ill-trained doctors and inadequate technology have popped up.\n\nOne-child policy\n\nLicensed hospitals say the government needs to step up regulations of the industry not just to prevent people being duped but also to stop abuses -- such as couples using fertility treatment to b
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Hi.. Josie .. how are you?\nHope you remember me.\n\nDowry marriage is still existing in many parts of India. But the percentage is really decreased. The people are not demanding nowadays. But ther are happily accepting whatever the bride's father offers.\n\nI hope this trend will go soon.\n\nHowever this is not applicable for love marriages.
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It is very obvious...\n\nSelect the place with China and India. You cant go wrong with reference to Population