Demographic+Profile+China

(**13.71 ** Per 1000 births) **//Trends://** Birth rates were very high previous to the Great Leap Forward (1960-1965). However, during the famine that occurred during the Great Leap Forward, birth rates dropped so low as to fall below the death rate. Afterwards, they shot back up, and the Cultural Revolution supported this, with the same theory that had caused the high birth rates before the Great Leap Forward, ‘a large population gives a strong nation’. In the 1970’s family planning was nevertheless introduced, causing the birth rate to half over the next ten years. While the birth rate increased slightly in the 1980’s, it has been steadily declining sense, in part due to the one-child policy.
 * CBR ** :
 * //2008 est.://**

** CDR: ** (**7.03 ** Per 1000 births) **//Trends://** Death rates first began falling in the 1950’s, when sanitation and medical care began to improve across the country. However, during the Greta Leap Forward, a neglect of farming caused a large famine, resulting in rocketing death rates, which actual exceeds birth rates during 1962 to 1965. In about 1966, death rates began to fall again, eventually plateau around **10 ** deaths per 1000.
 * //2008 est.://**

** IMR ** : (Total: **21.16 ** per 1,000 births) (Male: **19.43 ** per 1,000 births) (Female: **23.08 ** per 1,000 births) **//Trends://** Infant mortality rate has been dropping over the years, from **300 ** per 1000 in the 1950’s to about **21 ** per 1000 today. This has been due mainly to the increase in infant health care. China invested in developing technology to decrease infant mortality rate due to the population boom after the Great Leap Forward, when many children were being born, and has also increased the percent of children who receive vaccinations.
 * //2008 est.://**

** MMR ** : (**48.3 ** Per 100,000 births) **//Trends://** Maternal mortality rate has been decreasing over time, due to advances in medical care, even so rapidly as to have fallen from **61.9 ** per 100,000 in 1995 to **48.3 ** per 100,000 in 2004.
 * //2004 est.://**

** LE ** : (Total: **73.18 ** years) (Male: **71.37 ** years) (Female: **75.18 ** years) **//Trends://** Life expectancy has increased from about **40** years in the 1950’s to around **73 ** years today. This is like as not due to the great increase in China’s technological development and the improved medical care available.
 * //2008 est.://**

** TFR ** : (**<span style="color: rgb(247, 150, 70);">1.77 ** births per woman) **//Trends://** Total fertility rate dropped drastically during the famine in the Great Leap Forward, but rebounded nearly to **<span style="color: rgb(247, 150, 70);">8 **children per woman afterwards. Since then it has been dropping continuously to below **<span style="color: rgb(247, 150, 70);">2 **<span style="color: rgb(247, 150, 70);"> children per woman, due mainly to the one child policy and family planning.
 * //2008 est.://**


 * Sources**:

GAIA textbook http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200109/11/eng20010911_79913.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html#People http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/24/eng20050824_204323.html http://www.issi.org.pk/journal/2007_files/no_2/article/a7.htm