Incentives, employing exhortation, punishment and birth rate of China decline eventually to 1.03% in year 1995; it was an extraordinary low rate for such as developing country. It is still because of absolute size of country's total population. An increase is there of about one million in each month, that is an annual gain of 12,000,000 or over, that equals to the total population of a New York City.
Throughout 1970s, there was an increasing evidence of inexorable increase that was propelled planners of population and the politicians to attempt to bring drastic reduction of the family size as well as slow increase. Emerged was one child policy that has been successful in both static and controversial term of its implementation. That policy's implementation was hash especially in early 1980s due to forced abortions, strict penalties and infanticide. While policy of one child was widely carried in cities of China, it has been flexibly enforced in the rural areas as well and in the portions of country heavily populated ethnic minority groups.
First modern census in China in 1953 showed population of 583,000,000 that was a number has more than double in the less than 50 years, reached to 1,252,800,000 in year 1999. A way magnitude of recent surge is to realize about China's population that is increased in 1953 and present by over 670,000,000, number that is nearly exceeds combined current total population of the Europe (597,700,000). Issue of population has been addressed in China since 1949 that is very important component of the China's economy, political and social development during last half of century.
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