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China’s One Child Policy
As China ends its one child rule what has been its impact on the country’s population? Ruth Alexander looks at some of the numbers involved with the policy.
As China ends its one child rule what has been its impact on the country’s population? The More or Less team take a look at whether the policy on its own has slowed the rate at which China’s population has been growing. And now that parents in China will be allowed to have two children, which country will have the largest population in 2030? China or India? Ruth Alexander presents.
(Image: A woman carrying a baby in Yanji, in China's northeast Jilin province. Credit: Getty)
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