Tuesday, 24 January 2017

China birth rate up after one-child rule change - BBC News

quote [ Many of the 17.86 million babies born in China last year already had an older sibling, say officials. ]

What could go wrong...

This is more than the entire population of the following countries:

Kazakhstan -- 17,855,384
Malawi -- 17,749,826
Netherlands -- 16,979,729
Zambia -- 16,717,332
Guatemala -- 16,672,956
Ecuador -- 16,385,450
Zimbabwe -- 15,966,810
Cambodia -- 15,827,241
Senegal -- 15,589,485
Chad -- 14,496,739
Guinea -- 12,947,122
South Sudan -- 12,733,427
Rwanda -- 11,882,766
Burundi -- 11,552,561
Cuba -- 11,392,889
Tunisia -- 11,375,220
Belgium -- 11,371,928
Benin -- 11,166,658
Somalia -- 11,079,013
Greece -- 10,919,459
Bolivia -- 10,888,402
Haiti -- 10,848,175
Dominican Republic -- 10,648,613
Czech Republic -- 10,548,058
Portugal -- 10,304,434
Azerbaijan[d] -- 9,868,447
Sweden -- 9,851,852
Hungary -- 9,821,318
Belarus -- 9,481,521
United Arab Emirates -- 9,266,971
Serbia[e] -- 8,812,705
Tajikistan -- 8,669,464
Austria -- 8,569,633
Switzerland -- 8,379,477
Israel -- 8,192,463
Honduras -- 8,189,501
Papua New Guinea -- 7,776,115
Jordan -- 7,747,800
Togo -- 7,496,833
Hong Kong -- 7,346,248
Bulgaria -- 7,097,796
Laos -- 6,918,367
Paraguay -- 6,725,430
Sierra Leone -- 6,592,102
Libya -- 6,330,159
Nicaragua -- 6,150,035
El Salvador -- 6,146,419
Kyrgyzstan -- 6,033,769
Lebanon -- 5,988,153
Singapore -- 5,696,506
Denmark -- 5,690,750
Finland -- 5,523,904
Turkmenistan -- 5,438,670
Slovakia -- 5,429,418
Eritrea -- 5,351,680
Norway -- 5,271,958
Central African Republic -- 4,998,493
Costa Rica -- 4,857,218
Palestine[f] -- 4,797,239
Congo -- 4,740,992
Ireland -- 4,713,993
Oman -- 4,654,471
Liberia -- 4,615,222
New Zealand -- 4,565,185
Croatia -- 4,225,001
Mauritania -- 4,166,463
Moldova[g] -- 4,062,862
Kuwait -- 4,007,146
Panama -- 3,990,406
Georgia[h] -- 3,979,781
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 3,802,134
Puerto Rico -- 3,680,772
Uruguay -- 3,444,071
Armenia -- 3,026,048
Mongolia -- 3,006,444
Albania -- 2,903,700
Lithuania -- 2,850,030
Jamaica -- 2,803,362
Namibia -- 2,513,981
Botswana -- 2,303,820
Qatar -- 2,291,368
Lesotho -- 2,160,309
Republic of Macedonia -- 2,081,012
Slovenia -- 2,069,362
Gambia -- 2,054,986
Latvia -- 1,955,742
Guinea-Bissau -- 1,888,429
Gabon -- 1,763,142
Bahrain -- 1,396,829
Trinidad and Tobago -- 1,364,973
Estonia -- 1,309,104
Swaziland -- 1,304,063
Mauritius -- 1,277,459
Timor-Leste -- 1,211,245
Cyprus[i] -- 1,176,598
Djibouti -- 899,598
Fiji -- 897,537
Equatorial Guinea -- 869,587
Réunion -- 867,214
Comoros -- 807,118
Bhutan -- 784,103
Guyana -- 770,610
Montenegro -- 626,101
Macau -- 597,126
Solomon Islands -- 594,934
Western Sahara -- 584,206
Luxembourg -- 576,243
Suriname -- 547,610
Cabo Verde -- 526,993
Guadeloupe[j] -- 470,547
Brunei -- 428,874
Malta -- 419,615
Martinique -- 396,364
Bahamas -- 392,718
Maldives -- 369,812
Belize -- 366,942
Iceland -- 331,778
French Polynesia -- 285,735
Barbados -- 285,006
French Guiana -- 275,688
Vanuatu -- 270,470
New Caledonia -- 266,431
Mayotte -- 246,496
Samoa -- 194,523
Sao Tome and Principe -- 194,390
Saint Lucia -- 186,383
Guam -- 172,094
Guernsey and Jersey -- 164,466
Curaçao -- 158,635
Kiribati -- 114,405
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- 109,644
Grenada -- 107,327
Tonga -- 106,915
United States Virgin Islands -- 106,415
Federated States of Micronesia -- 104,966
Aruba -- 104,263
Seychelles -- 97,026
Antigua and Barbuda -- 92,738
Isle of Man -- 88,421
Dominica -- 73,016
Andorra -- 69,165
Bermuda -- 61,662
Cayman Islands -- 60,764
Greenland -- 56,196
Saint Kitts and Nevis -- 56,183
American Samoa -- 55,602
Northern Mariana Islands -- 55,389
Marshall Islands -- 53,069
Faroe Islands -- 48,239
Sint Maarten -- 39,538
Monaco -- 37,863
Liechtenstein -- 37,776
Turks and Caicos Islands -- 34,904
Gibraltar -- 32,373
San Marino -- 31,950
British Virgin Islands -- 30,659
Caribbean Netherlands[k] -- 25,328
Palau -- 21,501
Cook Islands -- 20,948
Anguilla -- 14,763
Wallis and Futuna -- 13,112
Nauru -- 10,263
Tuvalu -- 9,943
Saint Pierre and Miquelon -- 6,301
Montserrat -- 5,154
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha -- 3,956
Falkland Islands -- 2,912
Niue -- 1,612
Tokelau -- 1,276
Vatican City[l] -- 801
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[by XregnaR]
<-- Entry / Comment History

mechanical contrivance said @ 6:40pm GMT on 24th January
I was under the impression that China's population continued to grow despite the 1 child policy. I never understood that.

mechanical contrivance said @ 6:45pm GMT on 24th January
I was under the impression that China's population continued to grow despite the 1 child policy. I never understood that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChinaDemography.svg



<-- Entry / Current Comment
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:40pm GMT on 24th January
I was under the impression that China's population continued to grow despite the 1 child policy. I never understood that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChinaDemography.svg




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