The emergence of low fertility as a policy issue / Peter McDonald.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 22, no. 2, p. 5-9 22:2<5 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the 1960s, demographers projected that the world's population would reach 16 billion people by 2050, if the then very high fertility rates in most countries were not brought under control. Today, the projected population in 2050 is around 9 billion. This reduction of the world's population by 7 billion people from what might have been is one of the most remarkable but least heralded achievements of humankind. Most of the success, in numerical terms, can be attributed to falls in birth rates in Asian countries. In China alone, if fertility had remained at its late 1970s, relatively low level of 2.6 births per woman, the Chinese population in 2050 would be 1 billion more than is now projected.

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