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China’s High Sex Ratio at Birth and Birth Control Policies

Authors: Yuan Xin, Shi Hailong

Extract from ” « Recherches démographiques », Population Research, numéro 3, 2005, pp.11-18“

Ever since the 1970s, China has been implementing birth control policies as well as social and economic measures. Income and education levels are rising constantly, as well as the quality of life and the birth rate, whereas the national fertility rate is falling rapidly . The total fertility rate (TFR)1 has fallen from 6 in the 1970s to a level that is below the replacement level in the early 90s, and this level has been maintained for more than 10 years. Because of the drop in fertility rate and demographic changes that are specific Chinese features, the sex ratio at birth is calculated to be 107.6 in 1982, 111.3 in 1990, 116.9 in 2000, with a 7.74% rise within 18 years. The constant and incremental increase of the sex ratio at birth has become one of the most striking structural changes of the Chinese demography in the past twenty years or so.

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