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Birth Control Methods and Organisation in China

In: China’s One-Child Family Policy

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  • Pi-Chao Chen

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The release of the preliminary results of the 1982 census and of a national ‘One in one thousand’ fertility survey have confirmed that a fertility decline of major proportions took place in China in the 1970s. As recently as 1968, when the fertility level reached its second highest peak since 1950, the total fertility rate was 7.025 children per woman of reproductive age. In 1971, when the government embarked on the third birth-control campaign, the total fertility rate was still a high 5.442. A decade later in 1981 it had dropped to 2.238. In other words, China had reduced its fertility level by almost 60 per cent in a decade. Such a dramatic fertility transition in a large country and in so short a time is unprecedented. This achievement is all the more impressive because China’s population comprises one fifth of humankind and the transition has taken place without a profound socio-economic modernisation or a major improvement in living standards taking place prior to or during the transition period.

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  • Pi-Chao Chen, 1985. "Birth Control Methods and Organisation in China," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Elisabeth Croll & Delia Davin & Penny Kane (ed.), China’s One-Child Family Policy, chapter 5, pages 135-148, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17900-8_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17900-8_5
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