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Re:U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Min... by H8crilA on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:36PM (#23735851)
No it didn't, have you ever looked at the charts? They had the "Chinese Boomers" which were naturally followed by "Chinese Millennials". And then in 2015 the policy was abandoned but the birth rate has not bulged at all.
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Re:U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Min... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:42PM (#23735874)
Here is an article comparing China with India population growth.

http://m.statisticstimes.com/demographics/china-vs-india-pop...

You can see that China bends the curve compared to India.

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Re:U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Min... by whycombagator on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:04PM (#23735958)
> No it didn't, have you ever looked at the charts?

What charts?

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Re:U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Min... by H8crilA on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:13PM (#23735992)
Fertility/birth rates. A reminder - one child policy was introduced in 1979 and repelled in 2015, neither of those dates had any visible effect:

Fertility rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINCHN

Birth rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNCBRTINCHN

And it is not like the Chinese govt didn't try, they were serious about it. It's just that birth rates are mysterious. People will have kids when they want to, and will stop having kids when they want to, and they will listen to nobody. No authority.

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