Due to its economic growth and large population, the People's Republic of China is widely viewed as a rising economic and military superpower. But declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2024
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China's population has shrunk for the second year in a row.
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
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China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men—around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China's one-child policy, which ended ...
Social Sciences
Sep 1, 2023
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China's National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected—that 2022 was the year China's population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in the world—and until recently, by some margin.
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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India will surpass China as the country with the world's largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 report.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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China's universal three-child policy was passed into law this past August to boost the country's birth rate, after a two-child limit—implemented more than five years ago—failed to do so.
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2021
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A new study uses China's one-child policy to show that having fewer children leads women to achieve higher levels of education.
Economics & Business
Feb 12, 2020
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Women's educational attainment has increased tremendously and even exceeded men's all over the world in the late 20th century. China's One-Child Policy had a beneficial effect on women's education and explains about half ...
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2020
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When University of Kansas professor John James Kennedy began working in rural China, he would get introduced to villagers with multiple children—despite the country's strict one-child policy.
Political science
May 24, 2019
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