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Tuesday, 24 January 2017
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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sanepride said @ 5:46pm GMT on 24th Jan
That's an impressive list of countries with lower populations than last year's births in China, but also kind of irrelevant, considering you're talking about the percentages of a population of over a billion. What's important to keep in mind is that anything less than 2 kids/family is still a declining population overall.
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conception said @ 6:35pm GMT on 24th Jan
2 kids a family isn't necessarily a decline. Deaths being greater than births is what you need for a decline. If the age of death is relatively constant, 2 kids/family or less is declining but if medicine is keeping the population alive longer generation to generation, you'll get growth still since people aren't being replaced, but added to.
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mechanical contrivance said[1] @ 6:40pm GMT on 24th Jan
I was under the impression that China's population continued to grow despite the 1 child policy. I never understood that.
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conception said @ 6:47pm GMT on 24th Jan
People had more than one child.
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sanepride said @ 7:03pm GMT on 24th Jan
Also- a big decline in infant mortality rates, and as you cited above, longer life spans due to medical advances and improved health care.
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sanepride said @ 6:56pm GMT on 24th Jan
You'd get a short-term generational boom, but over multiple generations it's zero population growth, you're still just replacing two people with two people or less.
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