- Compared with countries in its income group (the middle fifth of all the countries in the world), China’s crude birth rate of 12 (the number of live births per 1,000 people each year) in 2013 is significantly lower than the group’s average of 19.
- The 24,037 marriages in 2014 involving one Singapore citizen was the most since 1997.
- The one-child policy came about after a rapid growth in the Chinese population in the 1950s and 1960s. It was strictly enforced in urban areas, with reports of forced abortions, sterilisations, as well as heavy financial and social penalties for those who transgressed the one-child law.
2 perceptions I have gained:
- Child policies may work well sometimes, but when it is stretched too far, parents will start to stand their ground about the difficulties in raising children, etc.
- The call for more children was announced because of an increase in the number of adults who do not marry and couples who postpone having children. Thus, these married couples will have to make up for this by giving birth to more babies to maintain the birth rate, while the government tries to get more people to marry.
1 question I have:
- Why do we still need so many children to balance out our aging population?
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