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China’s Birth Rate
January 23 , 2020
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- The birth rate in China has fallen to the lowest in 70 years.
- Birth rate in 2019 was at 10.48 per 1,000, the lowest since 1949.
- This fall in birth rate can be largely attributed to China’s one-child policy, which came into force in 1979 under then leader Deng Xiaoping.
- It was adopted that unchecked population growth would lead to economic and environmental catastrophe.
- Thomas Robert Malthus was the first economist to propose a systematic theory of population.
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