ABSTRACT
This chapter systematically compares population control policies and their implementations in China and India. It begins with the comparison of how the population perspectives of first-generation leaders affected policies in China and India. It asks how the different population control policies started, tightened, and relaxed in the two societies. After a comparison of policy development, it explores how India’s and China’s policies have been implemented differently. China’s specific population control policies, aimed at families, worked better than India’s population control policies that aimed at generally reducing population growth. This chapter also shows how government policies differed in China and India. Finally, it delves into the consequences of the population control and shows how China’s population has grown 3.4% more slowly while India’s population has grown 3% faster than the world’s population in the past seven decades. This difference of about 6.4% of the world’s population could mean a difference of about 500 million people. Finally, the chapter points out the potential problems for China’s population control and the continuous overpopulation issue in India.
