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Taiwan is the second most densely populated nation after Bangladesh, and the government is encouraging more births, but, essentially only with slogans, as people still feel too busy with work and housing is expensive and there is little state assistance for young families and mothers.
Taiwan may now have the lowest birth rate on the planet, and I think at the current rate, Taiwan will by 2018 have a very large portion of the population above 65 years of age.
It's not the second densiest nation in the world, more like 9th or 10th. It's the second densiest country with more than 10 million of population.
I'm not at all surprised that no one wants to have kids here. In fact. In fact I find those willing to do so incredibly courageous...or reckless lol.
It's not the second densiest nation in the world, more like 9th or 10th. It's the second densiest country with more than 10 million of population.
You're correct. I guess I've always thought it easier to just use nations rather than city-states and special administrative reasons when explaining how densly populated Taiwan is. Many people would not even have heard of places such as Macau, Monaco, Gibralter, Malta, Sint Martin, the Maldives, Jersey, Guersney, or Saint-Martin.
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Originally Posted by Greysholic
I'm not at all surprised that no one wants to have kids here. In fact. In fact I find those willing to do so incredibly courageous...or reckless lol.
India IS doing something to control population. It is developing economically, which invariably has the long term effect of reducing the number of new births per capita.
You cannot speed up economic development just by controllling population, the cause-and-effect works the other way around.
Guess what? India's fertility rate is declining massively. The country went from 7 children per family to 2.5. And many states in india have a fertility rate lower than the replacement level and are only growing due to immigration from other parts of india.
It's scary how the backlash against Malthusian views have led to even more inane views like this to the point people actually believe resources are unlimited and that the Earth can support an unlimited number of people.
Let's grammatically parse your question down to the S-V-O: "India controls population." Please define "India" in that context? Who or what, exactly, is "India", the subject of the verb "control"? Is it the government of India? Is it the people of India, acting collectively? Is it the people acting individually? The people expressing their will through democratic institutions? Is it the oligarchical structure that manipulates India? Is it the global banking empire that imposes its will on India? Who has the power and authority to be the subject of this verb?
It's scary how the backlash against Malthusian views have led to even more inane views like this to the point people actually believe resources are unlimited and that the Earth can support an unlimited number of people.
unlimited, no, a few billions? yes.
also depends on how resources are used. if every human lives like a typical American who drives everywhere to do everything (including buy a pack of beer), set their 2500sf homes for a family of 4 at 78F in the winter and 65C in the summer, then yes we are screwed.
Even if the government doesn't stop it, the families dont go beyond 1 kid these days to begin with. 2 kids is not financially viable.
The reason for the population increase is the most of the population reached it mating peak in the 70's-80's and boom, you have a population problem. Being one of the youngest country in the world it doesn't help! Average age is something 29.XX!
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