2.7 - Population Policies

natal

relating to birth

China's One Child Policy

- Law created in 1979 to slow down population growth and to prevent overpopulation. the law ended in 2015.

Pro-Natalist Policies

Government policies created to increase the rate of natural increase/total fertility rate

examples of pro-natalist countries

Singapore, Italy, France, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.

dependency ratio

The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force

Neo-Malthusians

a belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for few resources. Pessimists who warn of the global ecopolitical dangers of uncontrolled population growth

examples of antinatalist policies

forced sterilization, state sponsored contraceptives, tax incentives for having small families

Anti-Natalist Policies

government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase/total fertility rate

Replacement level fertility

the number of children a couple must have to maintain their current populations (2.1 in developed countries, 2.7 in developing countries)

family planning

the practice of regulating the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control

subsidize

to pay for fully or partially

gender imbalance in China & India

traditional preference and use of gender-selection technology for last 30 years has led to imbalance of too many young men and too few young women to marry in parts of China & India today