From USA TODAY:
…In China, still the world leader at 1.34 billion people, Li Bin, director of China’s State Population and Family Planning Commission, told state news agency Xinhua on Sunday the government will maintain its current, strict policies on family size. In recent days, Xinhua has run articles congratulating China for preventing 400 million births over the past three decades, delaying humanity’s 7 billion milestone by five years, and aiding China’s transformation into the world’s second-largest economy.
India, at 1.21 billion, is expected to exceed China’s population by 2030. Their expanding middle classes have fewer children, but both suffer from gender imbalances because families often abort female fetuses.
Their methods to control population reflect different societies and political systems…
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