Question

List three factors that account for the rapid growth of the world's human population over the past 200 years.

Answer 1

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In the 1960s, China's large population was growing so rapidly that there was a serious threat of mass starvation.

• The government established the world's strictest family planning and birth control program, promoting one-child families and provides contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortions for married couples.

• Married couples pledging to have no more than one child receive a number of benefits including better housing, more food, free health care, salary bonuses, and preferential job opportunities for their child.

• Between 1972 and 2011, the country cut its birth rate in half and trimmed the average number of children born to its women from 5.7 to 1

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