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Here are some policies that counties have made regarding their population.
Country |
Policy |
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Cons |
Denmark |
Families are encouraged to have babies due to the rapidly declining birth rate. A Danish travel company called Spies Rejser, offers people a free vacation and three years of free baby supplies if they can prove that they conceived while on vacation. Another organization Sex and Society teaches students about the positive sides of being pregnant. |
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China |
Families were encouraged to only have one child with preferential access to housing, schools, and health services. Also, there were financial levies on each additional child. This policy was put into place in 1979 and finally relaxed in 2013. |
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India |
Efforts to decrease the population goes back to the 1970's, when aggressive sterilization campaigns directed towards men. In recent years, India has mass sterilization programs that pays women to get sterilized. Now the Indian government in pushing for government facilities to give out free contraceptives. |
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Uzbekistan |
Efforts only recently reported. Doctors in Uzbekistan began to sterilize women after they have at least two children. They generally target poor women. Many women found out about the sterilization after they went to the doctors after having trouble getting pregnant again. |
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Russia |
Mothers with multiple children paid the equivalent of $11,000, due to Russia's population decreasing. |
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Sources
Indian population:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/india-population-growth-policy-problems-sterilisation-incentives-coercion
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/world/asia/india-to-change-its-decades-old-reliance-on-female-sterilization.html
Uzbekistan:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17612550
https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-forced-sterilization-widespread/25200182.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uzbek-women-accuse-state-of-mass-sterilizations-2028987.html
China:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151113-datapoints-china-one-child-policy/
Denmark:https://www.liveaction.org/news/do-it-for-denmark-campaign-underscores-demographic-problem-of-ageing-population/
Indian population:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/india-population-growth-policy-problems-sterilisation-incentives-coercion
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/world/asia/india-to-change-its-decades-old-reliance-on-female-sterilization.html
Uzbekistan:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17612550
https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-forced-sterilization-widespread/25200182.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uzbek-women-accuse-state-of-mass-sterilizations-2028987.html
China:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151113-datapoints-china-one-child-policy/
Denmark:https://www.liveaction.org/news/do-it-for-denmark-campaign-underscores-demographic-problem-of-ageing-population/