China and India

Why has the Chinese government been more successful than the Indian government in reducing its rate of population growth? Do you agree with China’s current population control policies? Why or why not? Explain your answer. What alternatives would you suggest to supplement to the present population policies of China?

Present on 16 June 2012 / Group Presentation Essay (2000 words) on 30 June

Introduction

Population has been widely agreed as an important issue for persistence development in both developed and developing countries, especially to China and India, the two most populated countries in the world. In 2010, China has about 13.4 billion population and India has 12.4 billion. The total population of these two countries accounts for one third of the whole population on the planet. This paper will introduce and evaluate the population policy of both countries to find out why Chinese government been more successful than the Indian government in reducing its rate of population growth, also try to give some suggestions to supplement to the present population policies of China.

India Population Control Policies

In 1952, India was the first country in the world to launch a National Family Planning Program which aimed at reducing birth rates “to stabilize the population at a level consistent with the requirement of national economy”. After 1952, since the improvement in medical development, there were sharp declines in death rate, however, not accompanied by a similar drop in birth rates result in the rapid grow of population in India.

In the early 1970s, Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, had implemented a forced sterilization programme in which men with two children or more had to force to sterilization. This programme was totally fail and is blamed for creating a public antipathy to family planning, which hindered Government programmes for decades.

Different to the forced sterilization programme implemented in the early 1970s, in 2000, The...