China's 1 Child Policy

Question 1

What was China’s population in 1949?

Answer 1

550 million

Question 2

What was China’s population in 1990?

Answer 2

1.13 billion

Question 3

What was China’s population in 2011?

Answer 3

1.34 billion

Question 4

How much of China’s population was urban in 2011?

Answer 4

Half

Question 5

How much of China’s population was urban in 1981?

Answer 5

1/5

Question 6

What is an anti-natalist policy?

Answer 6

Reducing the number of children being born by using incentives (positive aspects)

Question 7

What happened in China in 1979?

Answer 7

one child policy introduced as attempt to reduce population, put less pressure on resources. It achieved its goal in reducing the population - around 400 million births were prevented and the growth rate shrank to 0.9%

Question 8

What happened in China in 1960?

Answer 8

Mass drought across country. Crops dead, mass famine, killed over 30 million. Before this, the government had encouraged large families for a big, strong army.

Question 9

What were the advantages of a one child policy? (2 points)

Answer 9

It put less pressure on resources and women had actual jobs.

Question 10

What were the disadvantages of the one child policy? (5 points)

Answer 10

Gender imbalances, lost and dead girls, prostitution, breaches of human rights, less workers.