Great news! China’s Two-Child Policy Fails to Produce Baby Boom

Article CAIRCO note: 
The world's most overpopulated nation may yet reduce and stabilize its population
Article author: 
Steven Mosher
Article publisher: 
Breitbart
Article date: 
30 January 2018
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
international
demographics
growth
population
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Article Body: 
The birthrate in China fell last year, alarming government officials who had confidently predicted a baby boom following their relaxation of the one-child policy.
 
In 2016, the Chinese Communist Party abandoned its decades-long one-child policy and allowed all couples to have two children. China’s National Commission of Health and Family Planning confidently predicted that the new two-child policy would result in at least 20 million new births.
 
The state’s birth planners were wrong.
 
The National Bureau of Statistics reported on January 19th that there were only 17.2 million births in 2017, down from 17.9 million births the year before. The numbers not only fell millions short of the projected number, they suggest that the birth rate in China is set to dramatically decline in the future years...
 
With almost 1.4 billion people, China still has the world’s largest population. But the country is now facing the dismal prospect of having too few young people to drive its economy forward, or support its large and growing population of elderly....
 
For years, Chinese authorities bragged about the “success” of the one-child policy, which they proudly stated had eliminated 400 million people from the population. Today, as the number of babies born in China continues to drop, they are worriedly discussing what measures they can take to boost the birth rate....
 

 

CAIRCO Notes
 
We are sorry to observe the insanity displayed in this biased Breitbart article.
 
Infinite physical growth cannot occur within the finite boundaries of any given country. China recognized this when it implemented its one-child policy. Now that the policy has been relaxed, Breitbart is lamenting that China's population is not growing fast enough. 
 
The next logical step for Breitbart would be to proclaim that America is not growing fast enough and that we need open borders and unlimited mass immigration forever. What's good for China must surely be good for America. 
 
Fortunately, China - the world's most overpopulated nation - may yet rationally reduce and stabilize its population. 
 
Sadly, America's demographic destiny appears to be unending immigration-driven population growth.
 
For more information, see Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester R. Brown and Linda Starke, Worldwatch, 1995.
 
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