2030 China drops to #2
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O....M....G Only a few more years before the first of that 180 Million types their first faltering "Codezzzzzzz Plzzzzzzzzz". AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!
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not looking at the bigger picture is a problem in most cultures!
Most of us can't even find the big picture ;) What will be the effect of gender imbalance I wonder. Put excess males in the army & send them off to war, else they may cause trouble at home.
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No surprises there. China has had a pretty slow population growth for a while (one child policy).
What shocked me the most was that India has 1/8th the area of China
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time for india to adopt this policy?
Too draconian, won't work in a democracy.
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I can't wait to book a ticket to Mars. Until then, perhaps I'll consider Canada.
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No surprises there. China has had a pretty slow population growth for a while (one child policy).
With all the exceptions built into the system they actually have a "one and a half child" policy (1.47 for the nitpickers), before counting people sneaking around and having kids behind the govts back. China's official birthrate is 1.8; but since the official number has been flatlined at that level with zero variation for some years after decades of decline, most people think the real number is somewhat lower. Last year The Economist cited 1.6 as a likely correct value.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Most of us can't even find the big picture ;) What will be the effect of gender imbalance I wonder. Put excess males in the army & send them off to war, else they may cause trouble at home.
yeah, that imbalance is definitely going to be a big problem eventually
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Too draconian, won't work in a democracy.
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
well definitely forcing people to do it wouldn't work in a democracy, but there has to be some way to slow the population... that rate of growth is just ridiculous... maybe incentives for single child families?
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yeah, that imbalance is definitely going to be a big problem eventually
Yeah. The first round of countries to have this problem (South Korea, Taiwan, etc) were able to mitigate the issue locally by importing brides from poorer regions until their rising affluence began to counter the selection problem. Mainland China and India are both too big to solve it that way, and because testing is much cheaper now than it was a few decades ago have much larger problems proportionally as well.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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well definitely forcing people to do it wouldn't work in a democracy, but there has to be some way to slow the population... that rate of growth is just ridiculous... maybe incentives for single child families?
There is. Rising affluence and urbanization. Huge families with a zillion kids are an asset for subsistence farmers because the kids can begin contributing labor very early in life; for factory/office workers who have to pay for childcare and education instead kids are a financial liability and family sizes shrink after a generation or two. This change is known as the demographic transition[^]. The good news is that the current round of developing countries are undergoing a more rapid transition than most of the current developed countries did.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18