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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Ok, not relevant to the question though. Why did it not shrink when it was in place? I know they still could have more than 1 (or if the girl was born they still tried for boy etc), but still that would be far away from 2.1-2.3 rate (or whatever is needed to sustain)... Very strange.
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The reason is we are long lived. The one child policy will shrink the population but it takes one generation to take effect. The 20 year olds who didn't have extra kids in 1970 will be dying soon and their lack of replacement will show up in the numbers. But before that, you get lots of old people and less young people so your tax rolls get all goofed up. You need to tax the rich which are usually your old or tax the dead (inheritance).
China's age Pyramid =
http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/pop...ramid-2014.gif
Russia age pyramid, you can see WWII where the guys were killed off -
http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/pop...ramid-2014.gif
The Ukraine is one projected to decline the most in population. i doubt Russia and them together would sovle much.