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  2. Demographics of China - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of China. China is the second most-populous country in the world and Asia with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India. Historically, China has always been one of the nation-states with the most population. China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's ...

  3. One-child policy - Wikipedia

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    The text reads "Planned child birth is everyone's responsibility." Birth rate in China, 1950–2015. The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child.

  4. Population history of China - Wikipedia

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    The population history of China covers the long-term pattern of population growth in China and its impact on the history of China. The population went through many cycles that generally reached peaks along each imperial power and was decimated due to wars and barbarian invasions. The census data shows that the population as percentage share of ...

  5. China's population falls for first time in 60 years ... - AOL

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    HONG KONG — China said Tuesday that its population declined last year for the first time in six decades, a historic shift with profound implications for the world’s second-largest economy ...

  6. Human overpopulation - Wikipedia

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    Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) is the idea that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term. The topic is usually discussed in the context of world population, though it may concern individual nations, regions, and cities. Since 1804, the global living human ...

  7. Family planning policies of China - Wikipedia

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    t. e. China's family planning policies (Chinese: 计划生育政策) have included specific birth quotas (three-child policy, two-child policy, and the one-child policy) as well as harsh enforcement of such quotas. Together, these elements constitute the population planning program of the People's Republic of China. [1][2] China's program ...

  8. 2020 Chinese census - Wikipedia

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    The population of mainland China was 1,411,778,724 [9] as of 1 November 2020. [10] In addition, Taiwan's population was 23,539,588 (determined by the ROC Ministry of the Interior independently of the PRC census), Hong Kong's population was 7,474,200 (provided by the Hong Kong SAR Government at the end of 2020) and Macau's population was 683,218 (provided by the Macau SAR Government at the end ...

  9. Aging of China - Wikipedia

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    Aging of China. China's population pyramid, 2023 to 2100, as projected by the United Nations in 2022. China's population is aging faster than almost all other countries in modern history. [1][2] In 2050, the proportion of Chinese over retirement age will become 39 percent of the total population according to projections.