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Pradeep Kumar

01/06/21 15:14 PM IST

China 3 children policy

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China will for the first time allow couples to have a third child.

Highlights
  • This is a further relaxation of family planning rules five years after a “two-child policy” largely failed to boost birth rates.
  • The change comes less than three weeks after the release of China’s once-in-a-decade population census that painted an alarming picture of declining births.
  • The census said China’s population was 1.41 billion in 2020, an increase of 72 million since the last census in 2010, reflecting a 5.38% growth in this period and a 0.53% annual growth.
  • Forecasts say the population could peak in the next couple of years and most likely by 2025, when India will become the world’s most populous country.
Demography

Demography is the study of human populations – their size, composition and distribution across space – and the process through which populations change. Births, deaths and migration are the ‘big three’ of demography, jointly producing population stability or change.

Source: The Hindu

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