ABSTRACT
This book focuses on fertility, family planning, and population policy in China-the most populated country in the world. In 2004 China had nearly 1.3 billion inhabitants. After India, the United States is the third most populated country, with a population in 2004 of 293 million. But China has a land mass slightly less than that of the United States (9.6 million square kilometers of surface area compared to 9.8 million of the United States) with a population that is 4.4 times larger.
