What were the results of the one 'child norm' in China?
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Being the country with the highest population, China enforced the one-child norm in 1979.
The low population growth of China can be attributed to this one factor.
Although originally implemented to target only fertility and population rates, the one-child policy also affected population composition, economic growth, resource consumption and migration flow throughout China.
Coupled with urbanisation and an increasingly open market economy, population control has instigated social changes as well family size has decreased, male-to-female ratio has increased, marriage and child-bearing ages have risen. This transition in China has produced and will continue to produce an unprecedented growth in China's older population.
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