ENV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Demographic Transition, Total Fertility Rate, Ecological Footprint
27 Jan 2015
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Question #1: china"s one-child-per-family policy has been remarkably successful in reducing birth rate. The chinese experiment in population control has been effective that china"s population in 2012 was about. 1. 34 billion which is roughly 660 million less than it might have been given track in 1978. Its annual growth rate is 0. 51 percent which is 40 percent less than the us rate (cunningham, 2012). Indira gandhi, began a program of compulsory sterilization in an effort to reduce population growth. This rigorous policy causes so much public wrath and objection that the federal government decided to delegate family planning to individual states. Some of the states have been highly successful in reducing population rate, while others are not (cunningham, 2012). In kerala, the government provided a fair share of social benefits to everyone is seen as a key to family planning. The state improves female literacy rates and encourage women to have careers and delay having children.
