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The world continues to grow each and every day. Every year, world population increases. China currently has the largest population in the world. The latest 2015 statistics indicate that Chinas population has grown once again and consist of 1,401,586,609 people (Population of China , 2015). Today’s total world population is 7,324,782,225 people. (Population of China , 2015). The total population of China represents 19.3%( almost 20%) of the world’s total population. (Population of China , 2015) In comparison to Canada, China’s population is ranked number one in the world and Canada is ranked 37th worldwide with 35,524,732 people representing 0.49% of the worlds total population. (Countires in the World (ranked by 2014 population))In terms of density (measured by person per km2) Canada has one of the lowest (4 P/Km2) whereas China has a relatively high density of 135 P/Km2. (Countires in the World (ranked by 2014 population)).

China’s yearly population percentage change from 2014-2015 is 0.61%. This represents 8,353,029 more people already in 2015 than in 2014. (Population of China , 2015) The male population represents just over half of China’s population with 51.9% of the population being male (china population , 2015). Females in China represent 48.1%. (china population , 2015)

In 1955 Chinas population was 600,995,113 people with a fertility rate of 6.11. (Population of China , 2015) In 1982 the Chinese population surpassed one billion for the first time. (Population of China , 2015) The population of the Republic of China has more than doubled in the past 60 years (Population of China , 2015). The rapid growth that China experienced and continues to experience is the cause of the massive fertility rate drop (6.11 in 1955 and 1.66 today) and implementation of China’s one child policy (Population of China , 2015)
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China’s one child policy is “one of the largest & most dramatic population- control campaigns in the world.” (Pletcher) Evidently the policy



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