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China's Low Birth Rate and the Development of Population
About this book
As the most populous country in the world, China's demographic challenges have always been too many people for ecological system, resources, and the environment. However, by the early 1990s, fertility rate in China had dropped below the replacement level, and China's low fertility has now attracted the world's attention.
This book is among the first studies to raise and examine questions on low fertility in China, believing that China has entered a new era featured by low birth rate and ageing population. Utilizing advanced research methods and models on low fertility to analyze China's census data, this book explores the issues from various perspectives. Methodologies employed in past population studies, policy making concerning fertility rate, underreporting of births and fertility rate estimates, fertility level of the migrant population, current population pattern, long-term population trends, population dynamics, and many other thought-provoking problems are covered. Finally, the book revisits China's population issues in the context of globalization. The 21st century has seen the new challenge of persistent population decrease and ageing worldwide, which, along with economic globalization, demands a new understanding of the changes in population pattern and their consequences.
Researchers and students in China's demographic and social studies will be attracted by the insightful analysis and rich materials provided in the book. Population policy makers will also benefit from it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword to the Chinese edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Research framework and research objectives
- 2 Current situation of population development and demographic studies in China
- 3 Study and discussion on low fertility
- 4 Comments on previous estimates of underreporting and fertility rates
- 5 Education statistics and fertility estimates
- 6 The “fertility rebound” in the 2006 family planning survey was due to severe sample biases
- 7 Cohort analysis on parities and only children
- 8 Impact of population migration on the current fertility level
- 9 Age-specific population pyramids and migration to metropolises and urban areas
- 10 Fertility projection and future of China’s population
- 11 Brief analysis of the Sixth National Population Census and age-based estimates
- 12 Simulation of population trend in the past 20 years and forecast of future population based on the Sixth National Population Census
- 13 The Sixth National Population Census revealed grave flaws in previous population estimation and forecast
- 14 China’s major demographic risk: excessively low fertility and excessively fast aging
- 15 China’s population momentum under low fertility
- 16 World population in the era of globalization and China’s future
- Index