China's population

How china’s population has changed over time?
China's population is at once its greatest asset as well as its most significant challenge. This is as true today as the twenty-first century begins as it has been for much of China's history. Although there are not absolutely reliable historical census numbers for China, certain patterns emerge as one examines China's imperial demographic path from 60 million people two thousand years ago passing the one billion mark in recent times. China is world`s most populous country in the world with population of more than 1.3 billion people. It represents 20% of world`s total population. In 1950 china only had 563 million people in near 1980’s it raised up to 1 billion then in 1979 the Chinese government introduced the One child policy. Now in 2011, the population is 1.3 billion.
China`s population several hundred years ago: As early as 2 C.E. during the Han dynasty, China had a population of some 60 million — approximately one-fourth of the world's population at that time. Historical fluctuations of growth and decline kept China's population between 37 and 60 million over a period of at least the next 1000 years before beginning to increase rapidly. In the early years of the Ming dynasty in the late fourteenth century, China's population began dramatic changes that continue to the present. Rapid increases occurred especially between 1749 and 1811 during the Qing dynasty when the country's population doubled from 177,495,000 to 358,610,000. The doubling and redoubling of China's population occurred well before China began its industrial revolution. Between 1851 and 1949, a century of rebellion, social upheaval, and suffering, China's population base increased "only" by another 100,000,000. (During the same period, the population of the United States increased from about 23,000,000 to 151,000,000. Of this 128 million increase in the US, 36 million was due to immigration.)
China’s one child policy:
Throughout the 1970s there was increasing evidence of increases that forced population planners and politicians to attempt to bring about a drastic reduction of family size. What emerged was the one child policy, a policy that has been both successful in statistical terms and controversial in terms of its implementation. The implementation of the policy was especially harsh in the early 1980s, notorious because of forced abortions, infanticide, and strict penalties. While the one child policy is widely carried out in China's cities, it has been more flexibly enforced in rural areas and in those portions of the country heavily populated by ethnic minority groups. Throughout the rural areas two and three children per couple are common; here also there is increased awareness of the need for population planning and a general willingness to have fewer children than was common in China in the past. Contraception is widely practiced throughout China in order to reduce pregnancies and widen the spacing between births. In many cases the so-called one-child policy can be best stated today as "One is best, two at most, but never a third."

Population Growth in China Today:
Both the crude birth rate and the crude death rate declined significantly between 1949 and 1997, except for the early years of the 1960s. The success of China's population planning program is heralded by some because of the fact that as many as 200 million fewer Chinese were born as the program was implemented and gained popularity. Employing exhortation, incentives, and punishments, China's birth rate eventually declined to 1.03 per cent in 1995, an extraordinarily low rate for a developing country. Still, because of the absolute size of the country’s total population, there is a net increase of about one million each month, an annual gain of over 12,000,000 that equals the total population of New York City.
What might have happened if china’s population has increased at the same rate?
Youthful population. 319,244,000 (26% of total population) are below the age of 14, compared to 58,196,000 (20% of total population) in the United States.
Aging population. 120,000,000 10% of total are over 60 years of age, as compared to 54,794,000 21% of total in the United States. China has 20% 1 in 5 of all people alive who are above 60 years of age.
Increased life expectancy. 1998: Women 71 and Men 68 as compared to 1950 when the figures were 42 and 39 respectively.
Large Urban Population. China has the largest urban population of any country in the world even though most Chinese live in rural areas. More than 311,000,000 Chinese live in cities compared to 194,700,000 in the United States.
This facts above show how much more populated it is than normal countries if this rate carries on china will go over the 2 billion mark.
Ratio of males to females to china:
China has males to female’s ratio of 120males:100females by 2020 there will be 20 million young men without a bride.

Chinese tradition prefers sons. Parents spoil there “one boy” this results in obese and in china boys are known as “little emperors”.

Because of the increasing shortage of woman there has been bride kidnapping and this has been common in rural areas.