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Fertility Transition In China

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The pattern of fertility transition is one of the important topics for the demographer for a developed and underdeveloped countries. Many scholars have their own definition of fertility transition and its causes and its implication. According to (Weeks, 2008) “The fertility transition is the shift from high fertility, characterized by only minimal individual deliberate control, to low-perhaps very low –fertility, which is entirely under a woman’s(or more generally a couple’s) control”. The pattern in fertility transition in developing country like china has many causes and implication. China being a developing country has a major issue with the population of and the problem related to it, and with interference of the government, now the population …show more content…

In China there was change in marital change with the age in first marriage and the commonly the marriage happen in 1970 and 1980 and simultaneous rapid fertility decline. And the fertility transition can change in the social and economic development with the couple decision making or through contraceptive. (Sci, …show more content…

The population growth onset of the demographic transition in 1970 predates one-child policy. So the pattern in the transition had a large impact on the proportion of children in china in population, which now has fallen. And another implication would be on the age of a working age group due to low fertility transition. For the last 20 years there has been a have a substantial change in the size of population where the household decrease from 4.5 in 1982 to 3.5, which is important in expenditure pattern.
Which help u to control per capital expenditure and food per capital. The pattern of fertility transition of china has an implication on the social welfare of the country and the world. Fertility transition in china has an implication on the one child policy which has decrease the fertility rates and increase the dependency ratio of the people. The dependency ratio will increase since there is small family, people will start to depend to each other and with less fertility, and there will be small community, so naturally people will depend to each other. This leads to high dependency

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