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'{{short description|Practice of controlling rate of growth}} {{For |the practice among non-humans|Population control}} [[File:Total Fertility Rate Map by Country.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.35|Map of countries by fertility rate (2020), according to the [[Population Reference Bureau]] ]] '''Human reproduction planning''' is the practice of intentionally controlling the rate of [[Human population growth|growth of a human population]]. Historically, human population planning has been implemented with the goal of increasing the rate of human population growth. However, in the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about global population growth and its effects on [[poverty]], [[Human impact on the environment|environmental degradation]] and [[political stability]] led to efforts to reduce human population growth rates. More recently, some countries, such as [[China]], [[Iran]], and [[Spain]], have begun efforts to increase their birth rates once again. While population planning can involve measures that improve people's lives by giving them greater control of their [[reproduction]], a few programs, most notably the Chinese government's "[[one-child policy]] and [[two-child policy]]", have resorted to coercive measures. ==Types== Three types of population planning goals pursued by governments can be identified: # Reducing the overall population growth rate # Decreasing the relative population growth of a less favored subgroup of a national population or ethnic group, such as people of low intelligence or people with disabilities. This is known as [[eugenics]]. # Instead of trying to control the rate of population growth ''per se'', trying to arrange things so that all population groups of a certain type (e.g. all social classes within a society) have the same average rate of population growth. ==Methods== {{more citations needed section|date=September 2013}} While a specific population planning practice may be legal/mandated in one country, it may be illegal or restricted in another, indicative of the controversy surrounding this topic. ===Reducing population growth=== Population planning that is intended to reduce a population or sub-population's growth rates may promote or enforce one or more of the following practices, although there are other methods: * [[War]] (Wars that are done on purpose or in aggression can cause casualties that lower the population. For instance in the [[Iraq War]] approximately 1 million people died.)<ref>Baker, Luke, [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-deaths-survey/iraq-conflict-has-killed-a-million-iraqis-survey-idUSL3048857920080130 "Iraq conflict has killed a million Iraqis: survey"], ''Reuters'', January 30, 2008</ref> * Higher [[taxation]] of parents who have too many children * [[Contraception]] * [[Pandemic]] * [[Sexual abstinence|Abstinence]][[File:2012 Infant mortality rate per 1000 live births, under-5, world map.svg|thumb|240px|World infant mortality rates in 2012<ref>[http://www.childmortality.org/files_v16/download/UNICEF%202013%20IGME%20child%20mortality%20Report_Final.pdf Infant Mortality Rates in 2012] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153724/http://www.childmortality.org/files_v16/download/UNICEF%202013%20IGME%20child%20mortality%20Report_Final.pdf |date=July 14, 2014 }}, [[UNICEF]], 2013.</ref>]] * Reducing [[infant mortality]] so that parents do not need to have many children to ensure at least some survive to adulthood.<ref>Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time, Alex Perry p9</ref> * [[Abortion]] * Changing [[status of women]] causing departure from traditional sexual division of labour. * [[Sterilisation (medicine)|Sterilization]] * [[One child policy|One-child]] and [[Two child policy|Two-child]] policies, and other policies restricting or discouraging births directly. * [[Family planning]]<ref name="Ryerson 2010">{{cite book|last1=Ryerson|first1=William N.|title=The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises|chapter=Ch.12: Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else|date=2010|publisher=Watershed Media|location=Healdsburg, Calif.|isbn=978-0970950062|pages=153–174}}</ref> * [[Urbanization|Migration from rural areas to urban areas]]:<ref>[https://www.prb.org/urbanization-an-environmental-force-to-be-reckoned-with/ Urbanization: An Environmental Force to Be Reckoned With]</ref> having more children is financially more beneficial (for farming families, ...) in rural areas than in urban areas * Create small family "role models"<ref name="Ryerson 2010"/> * Changes to immigration policies * [[Emigration]] {{citation needed|date=July 2019}}. The method(s) chosen can be strongly influenced by the religious and cultural beliefs of community members. The failure of other methods of population planning can lead to the use of abortion or [[infanticide]] as solutions.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} === Increasing population growth === Population policies that are intended to increase a population or subpopulation growth rates may use practices such as: * Higher [[taxation]] of married couples who have no, or too few, children * Politicians imploring the populace to have bigger families * Tax breaks and subsidies for families with children * Loosening of [[immigration]] restrictions, and/or mass recruitment of foreign workers by the government ==History== ===Ancient times through Middle Ages=== A number of ancient writers have reflected on the issue of population. At about 300 BC, the Indian [[political philosopher]] [[Chanakya]] (c. 350-283 BC) considered population a source of political, economic, and military strength. Though a given region can house too many or too few people, he considered the latter possibility to be the greater evil. Chanakya favored the remarriage of [[widows]] (which at the time was forbidden in India), opposed taxes encouraging emigration, and believed in restricting [[asceticism]] to the aged.<ref name="Neurath 1994 7">{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> In [[ancient Greece]], [[Plato]] (427-347 BC) and [[Aristotle]] (384-322 BC) discussed the best population size for Greek [[city-state]]s such as Sparta, and concluded that cities should be small enough for efficient administration and direct citizen participation in public affairs, but at the same time needed to be large enough to defend themselves against hostile neighbors. In order to maintain a desired population size, the philosophers advised that [[procreation]], and if necessary, immigration, should be encouraged if the population size was too small. Emigration to colonies would be encouraged should the population become too large.<ref name=" Neurath 1994 6"/> Aristotle concluded that a large increase in population would bring, "certain poverty on the citizenry and poverty is the cause of sedition and evil." To halt rapid population increase, Aristotle advocated the use of [[abortion]] and the exposure of newborns (that is, [[infanticide]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=6–7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> [[Confucius]] (551-478 BC) and other Chinese writers cautioned that, "excessive growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife." Confucius also observed that, "mortality increases when food supply is insufficient; that premature marriage makes for high infantile mortality rates, that war checks population growth."<ref name="Neurath 1994 6">{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> [[Ancient Rome]], especially in the time of [[Augustus]] (63 BC-AD 14), needed manpower to acquire and administer the vast [[Roman Empire]]. A series of laws were instituted to encourage early marriage and frequent childbirth. Lex Julia (18 BC) and the Lex Papia Poppaea (AD 9) are two well-known examples of such laws, which among others, provided tax breaks and preferential treatment when applying for public office for those that complied with the laws. Severe limitations were imposed on those who did not. For example, the surviving spouse of a childless couple could only inherit one-tenth of the deceased fortune, while the rest was taken by the state. These laws encountered resistance from the population which led to the disregard of their provisions and to their eventual abolition.<ref name="Neurath 1994 7"/> [[Tertullian]], an early Christian author (ca. AD 160-220), was one of the first to describe famine and war as factors that can prevent overpopulation.<ref name=" Neurath 1994 7"/> He wrote: "The strongest witness is the vast population of the earth to which we are a burden and she scarcely can provide for our needs; as our demands grow greater, our complaints against Nature's inadequacy are heard by all. The scourges of pestilence, famine, wars, and earthquakes have come to be regarded as a blessing to overcrowded nations since they serve to prune away the luxuriant growth of the human race."<ref name="Neurath94-page8"/> [[Ibn Khaldun]], a North African [[Arab]] [[polymath]] (1332–1406), considered population changes to be connected to economic development, linking high birth rates and low death rates to times of economic upswing, and low birth rates and high death rates to economic downswing. Khaldoun concluded that high [[population density]] rather than high absolute population numbers were desirable to achieve more efficient division of labour and cheap administration.<ref name=Neurath94-page8 >{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> During the [[Middle Ages]] in Christian Europe, population issues were rarely discussed in isolation. Attitudes were generally pro-[[natalist]] in line with the [[Biblical]] command, "Be ye fruitful and multiply."<ref name=Neurath94-page8 /> ===16th and 17th centuries=== European cities grew more rapidly than before, and throughout the 16th century and early 17th century discussions on the advantages and disadvantages of population growth were frequent.<ref name="Neurath 1994 10">{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], an Italian [[Renaissance]] [[political philosopher]], wrote, "When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways," listing [[floods]], [[Yersinia pestis|plague]] and [[famine]].<ref name="Neurath 1994 9">{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> [[Martin Luther]] concluded, "God makes children. He is also going to feed them."<ref name="Neurath 1994 9"/> [[Jean Bodin]], a French [[jurist]] and [[political philosophy|political philosopher]] (1530–1596), argued that larger populations meant more production and more exports, increasing the wealth of a country.<ref name="Neurath 1994 9"/> [[Giovanni Botero]], an Italian priest and diplomat (1540–1617), emphasized that, "the greatness of a city rests on the multitude of its inhabitants and their power," but pointed out that a population cannot increase beyond its food supply. If this limit was approached, late marriage, emigration, and the war would serve to restore the balance.<ref name="Neurath 1994 9"/> [[Richard Hakluyt]], an English writer (1527–1616), observed that, "Through our longe peace and seldom sickness... we are grown more populous than ever heretofore;... many thousands of idle persons are within this realme, which, having no way to be sett on work, be either mutinous and seek alteration in the state, or at least very burdensome to the commonwealth." Hakluyt believed that this led to crime and full jails and in ''A Discourse on Western Planting'' (1584), Hakluyt advocated for the emigration of the surplus population.<ref name=" Neurath 1994 10"/> With the onset of the [[Thirty Years' War]] (1618–48), characterized by widespread devastation and deaths brought on by hunger and disease in Europe, concerns about depopulation returned.<ref>{{cite book |title=From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back |last= Neurath |first=Paul |authorlink= |year=1994 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe|location= |isbn=9781563244070 |pages=10–11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZHx3GO_xLMC&dq=%22population+control%22}}</ref> ==Population planning movement== In the 20th century, population planning proponents have drawn from the insights of [[Thomas Malthus]], a British clergyman and economist who published ''[[An Essay on the Principle of Population]]'' in 1798. Malthus argued that, "Population, when unchecked, increases in a [[geometric progression|geometrical]] ratio. [[Subsistence]] only increases in an [[arithmetic progression|arithmetical]] ratio." He also outlined the idea of "positive checks" and "preventative checks." "Positive checks", such as [[disease]]s, [[war]]s, [[disaster]]s, [[famine]]s, and [[genocide]]s are factors which Malthus believed could increase the death rate.<ref name="geography.about.com">Rosenberg, M. (2007, September 09)3-2. Thomas Malthus on Population. Retrieved June 20, 2009, from About.com [http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/malthus.htm "Geography Web site"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624052900/http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/malthus.htm |date=2009-06-24 }}</ref> "Preventative checks" were factors which Malthus believed could affect the birth rate such as moral restraint, abstinence and [[birth control]].<ref name="geography.about.com"/> He predicted that "positive checks" on [[exponential growth|exponential population growth]] would ultimately save humanity from itself and he also believed that human misery was an "absolute necessary consequence."<ref name="Knudsen 2006 2–3">{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/2 2]–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud |url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref> Malthus went on to explain why he believed that this misery affected the poor in a disproportionate manner. [[File:World population growth rate 1950–2050.svg|left|300px|thumb|[[Population growth#Human population growth rate|World population growth rate 1950–2050]]]] {{quote|There is a constant effort towards an increase in population which tends to subject the lower classes of society to distress and to prevent any great permanent amelioration of their condition…. The way in which these effects are produced seems to be this. We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population... increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. The food, therefore which before supplied seven million must now be divided among seven million and a half or eight million. The poor consequently must live much worse, and many of them are reduced to severe distress.<ref>Bleier, R. The Home Page of the International Society of Malthus. Retrieved June 20, 2009, from The International Society of Malthus Web site: {{cite web |url=http://desip.igc.org/malthus/principles.html |title=Malthus Society Rationale and Core Principles |accessdate=2009-06-26 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618035115/http://desip.igc.org/malthus/principles.html |archivedate=2009-06-18 }}</ref>}} Finally, Malthus advocated for the education of the lower class about the use of "moral restraint" or voluntary abstinence, which he believed would slow the growth rate.<ref>[http://homepage.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766-1834] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801082256/http://homepage.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm |date=2009-08-01 }}. Retrieved June 20, 2009, from The History of Economic Thought Website</ref> [[Paul R. Ehrlich]], a US biologist and environmentalist, published ''[[The Population Bomb]]'' in 1968, advocating stringent population planning policies.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/3 3] |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud|url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref> His central argument on population is as follows: {{quote|A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually, he dies - often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance to survive.|<ref name="Knudsen 2006 3">{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/3 3] |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud |url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref>}} [[File:World population history.svg|thumb|280px|World population 1950–2010]] [[File:Human population growth from 1800 to 2000.png|thumbnail|right|World population 1800-2000]] In his concluding chapter, Ehrlich offered a partial solution to the "population problem," "[We need] compulsory birth regulation... [through] the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family size".<ref name="Knudsen 2006 3"/> Ehrlich's views came to be accepted by many population planning advocates in the United States and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/3 3]–4 |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud |url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref> Since Ehrlich introduced his idea of the "population bomb," overpopulation has been blamed for a variety of issues, including increasing poverty, high unemployment rates, environmental degradation, famine and genocide.<ref name="Knudsen 2006 2–3"/> In a 2004 interview, Ehrlich reviewed the predictions in his book and found that while the specific dates within his predictions may have been wrong, his predictions about climate change and disease were valid. Ehrlich continued to advocate for population planning and co-authored the book ''The Population Explosion'', released in 1990 with his wife Anne Ehrlich. However, it is controversial as to whether human population stabilization will avert environmental risks.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems |first=Corey J. A. |last=Bradshaw |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]] |volume=111 |issue=46 |pages=16610–16615 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1410465111 |pmid=25349398 |year=2014 |pmc=4246304 |bibcode=2014PNAS..11116610B |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Dean |last=Spears |title=Smaller human population in 2100 could importantly reduce the risk of climate catastrophe |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]] |volume=112 |issue=18 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1501763112 |pages=E2270 |pmid=25848063 |pmc=4426416 |bibcode=2015PNAS..112E2270S |year=2015 |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Matt |last=McGrath |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29788754 |title=Population controls 'will not solve environment issues' |publisher=BBC |date=October 27, 2014 |accessdate=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504092235/http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29788754 |archivedate=May 4, 2016 }}</ref> Paige Whaley Eager argues that the shift in perception that occurred in the 1960s must be understood in the context of the demographic changes that took place at the time.<ref name=WhaleyEager>{{cite book |title=Global Population Policy |last= Whaley Eager |first=Paige |year=2004 |publisher= Ashgate Publishing|location= |isbn=9780754641629 |pages=36|url=https://books.google.com/?id=G2WBj4BDLqYC&dq=reproductive+rights }}</ref> It was only in the first decade of the 19th century that the world's population reached one billion. The second billion was added in the 1930s, and the next billion in the 1960s. 90 percent of this net increase occurred in developing countries.<ref name=WhaleyEager/> Eager also argues that, at the time, the [[United States]] recognised that these demographic changes could significantly affect global geopolitics. Large increases occurred in [[China]], [[Mexico]] and [[Nigeria]], and demographers warned of a "population explosion," particularly in developing countries from the mid-1950s onwards.<ref>{{cite book |title=Global Population Policy |last= Whaley Eager |first=Paige |authorlink= |year=2004 |publisher= Ashgate Publishing|location= |isbn=9780754641629 |pages=37|url=https://books.google.com/?id=G2WBj4BDLqYC&dq=reproductive+rights }}</ref> In the 1980s, tension grew between population planning advocates and women's health activists who advanced women's [[reproductive rights]] as part of a [[human rights]]-based approach.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/2 2] |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud |url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref> Growing opposition to the narrow population planning focus led to a significant change in population planning policies in the early 1990s.{{further explanation needed|date=January 2013}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Reproductive Rights in a Global Context |last= Knudsen |first=Lara |authorlink= |year=2006 |publisher= Vanderbilt University Press |location= |isbn=9780826515285 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud/page/4 4]–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/reproductiverigh0000knud |url-access=registration |quote=reproductive rights. }}</ref> ==Population planning and economics== Opinions vary among economists about the effects of population change on a nation's economic health. US scientific research in 2009 concluded that the raising of a child cost about $16,000 yearly ($291,570 total for raising the child to its 18th birthday).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57367220090804 | work=Reuters | first=Charles | last=Abbott | title=Pricetag to raise a child -- $291,570, says U.S | date=August 4, 2009 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824010713/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57367220090804 | archivedate=August 24, 2010 }}</ref> In the US, the multiplication of this number with the yearly population growth will yield the overall cost of the population growth. Costs for other developed countries are usually of a similar order of magnitude. Some economists, such as [[Thomas Sowell]]<ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021298.html%22 Thomas Sowell Julian Simon, combatant in a 200-year war] {{webarchive|url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090708044535/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021298.html%22 |date=2009-07-08 }} Thomas Sowell, February 12, 1998</ref> and [[Walter E. Williams]],<ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams022499.asp Population control nonsense] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515032842/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams022499.asp |date=2016-05-15 }} Walter Williams, February 24, 1999</ref> have argued that poverty and famine are caused by bad government and bad economic policies, not by overpopulation. In his book ''[[The Ultimate Resource]]'', economist [[Julian Simon]] argued that higher population density leads to more specialization and [[technological innovation]], which in turn leads to a higher standard of living. He claimed that human beings are the ultimate resource since we possess "productive and inventive minds that help find creative solutions to man’s problems, thus leaving us better off over the long run".<ref>Moore, S. (1998, March/April). Julian Simon Remembered: it's a Wonderful Life. Retrieved June 25, 2009, from [http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n2-1.html CATO Institute Web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626035831/http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n2-1.html |date=2009-06-26 }}</ref> He also claimed that, "Our species is better off in just about every measurable material way."<ref name="wired.com">Regis, E. (1997, February). The Doomslayer. Retrieved June 20, 2009, from [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon.html?pg=1&topic= Wired.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103204754/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon.html?pg=1&topic= |date=2012-11-03 }} site</ref> {{Context inline|date=July 2011}} Simon also claimed that when considering a list of [[List of countries by population density|countries ranked in order by population density]], there is no correlation between population density and poverty and starvation.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}} Instead, if a list of countries is considered according to corruption within their respective governments, there is a significant correlation between government corruption, poverty and famine.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}} ==Views on population planning== {{POV section|date=February 2013}} ===Population increase reductions=== ====Support==== As early as 1798, [[Thomas Malthus]] argued in his [[Essay on the Principle of Population]] for implementation of population planning. Around the year 1900, Sir [[Francis Galton]] said in his publication ''Hereditary Improvement'': "The unfit could become enemies to the State if they continue to propagate." In 1968, Paul Ehrlich noted in ''[[The Population Bomb]]'', "We must cut the cancer of population growth", and "if this was not done, there would be only one other solution, namely the 'death rate solution' in which we raise the death rate through war-famine-pestilence, etc.” In the same year, another prominent modern advocate for mandatory population planning was [[Garrett Hardin]], who proposed in his landmark 1968 essay ''[[Tragedy of the commons]]'', society must relinquish the "freedom to breed" through "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon." Later on, in 1972, he reaffirmed his support in his new essay "[[Exploring New Ethics for Survival]]", by stating, " We are breeding ourselves into oblivion." Many prominent personalities, such as [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Margaret Sanger]] (1939), [[John D. Rockefeller]], [[Frederick Osborn]] (1952), [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arne Næss]]<ref>Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (1998). ''Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism''. NY: New York University Press, {{ISBN|0-8147-3110-4}}</ref> and [[Jacques Cousteau]] have also advocated for population planning. Today, a number of influential people advocate population planning such as these: * [[David Attenborough]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article855953.ece | location=London | work=The Times | first=Jonathan | last=Leake | title=Attenborough cut population by half | date=August 3, 2003 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508161558/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article855953.ece | archivedate=May 8, 2009 }}</ref> * [[Jonathon Porritt]], UK sustainable development commissioner<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/sep/01/environment.farrightpolitics | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Walter | last=Schwarz | title=Crowd control | date=September 1, 2004 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116102021/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/sep/01/environment.farrightpolitics | archivedate=November 16, 2016 }}</ref> * [[Sara Parkin]]<ref>[http://www.kingston.ac.uk/environment/conf_parkin.ppt Local to Global: Kingston University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527203213/http://www.kingston.ac.uk/environment/conf_parkin.ppt |date=2008-05-27 }}</ref> * [[Crispin Tickell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13318134.700-the-green-diplomat-sir-crispin-tickell-has-had-adistinguished-diplomatic-career-he-has-also-helped-to-put-climate-changeatthe-top-of-the-worlds-political-agenda-.html|title=Last Word Archive - New Scientist|website=newscientist.com|accessdate=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019120449/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13318134.700-the-green-diplomat-sir-crispin-tickell-has-had-adistinguished-diplomatic-career-he-has-also-helped-to-put-climate-changeatthe-top-of-the-worlds-political-agenda-.html|archivedate=19 October 2013}}</ref> * [[Christian de Duve]], Nobel laureate<ref>Lloyd, Robin (30 June 2011) [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/06/30/laureate-urges-next-generation-to-address-population-control-as-central-issue/ Laureate urges next generation to address population control as central issue] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120410093447/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/06/30/laureate-urges-next-generation-to-address-population-control-as-central-issue/ |date=2012-04-10 }} Scientific Americain, Retrieved 9 April 2012</ref> * [[Bernie Sanders]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders in climate change 'population control' uproar |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49601678 |publisher=BBC News |date=5 September 2019}}</ref> The head of the UN Millennium Project [[Jeffrey Sachs]] is also a strong proponent of decreasing the effects of overpopulation. In 2007, Jeffrey Sachs gave a number of lectures (2007 [[Reith Lectures]]) about population planning and overpopulation. In his lectures, called "[[Bursting at the seams (Reith lectures)|Bursting at the Seams]]", he featured an integrated approach that would deal with a number of problems associated with overpopulation and [[poverty reduction]]. For example, when criticized for advocating mosquito nets he argued that child survival was, "by far one of the most powerful ways," to achieve fertility reduction, as this would assure poor families that the smaller number of children they had would survive.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/lecture1.shtml BBC.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412162642/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/lecture1.shtml |date=2009-04-12 }} Bursting at the Seams</ref> ====Opposition==== The Roman Catholic Church [[Catholic Church and abortion|has opposed abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception]] as a general practice but especially in regard to population planning policies.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Saunders|first1=William|title=Church Has Always Condemned Abortion|url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/abortion/catholic-teaching/the-catholic-church-and-abortion/|website=Catholic News Agency|publisher=Arlington Catholic Herald|accessdate=20 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321081341/http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/abortion/catholic-teaching/the-catholic-church-and-abortion/|archivedate=21 March 2017}}</ref> [[Pope Benedict XVI]] has stated, "The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings."<ref name="Vatican.va">{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20081208_xlii-world-day-peace_en.html|title=42nd World Day of Peace 2009, Fighting Poverty to Build Peace - BENEDICT XVI|website=www.vatican.va|accessdate=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011230252/https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20081208_xlii-world-day-peace_en.html|archivedate=11 October 2011}}</ref> The reformed Theology pastor Dr. [[Stephen Tong]] also opposes the planning of human population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ww123.net/redirect.php?tid=4862770&goto=lastpost |title=唐崇荣牧师 圣经难解经文 第二十九讲 诺亚咒诅迦南 - 宗教与信仰 - 旺旺网 给你一片纯净的天空 |accessdate=2017-03-22 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323053413/https://ww123.net/redirect.php?tid=4862770&goto=lastpost |archivedate=2017-03-23 }} 唐崇荣牧师 圣经难解经文 第二十九讲 诺亚咒诅迦南, Retrieved 22 Mar 2017.</ref> ===Natalism=== [[The Nation]] has criticised some white [[Quiverfull]] families for having large families motivated by demographic change and worries about "race suicide".<ref name='nation'>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war?page=full|title=Arrows for the War|journal=The Nation|accessdate=2010-09-18|date=9 November 2006|author=Kathryn Joyce|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902004749/http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war?page=full|archivedate=2 September 2012}}</ref> ==Pro-natalist policies== {{see also|Natalism}} In 1946, Poland introduced a [[:pl: Bykowe|tax on childlessness]], discontinued in the 1970s, as part of natalist policies in the Communist government. From 1941 to the 1990s, the Soviet Union had a [[Tax on childlessness|similar tax]] to replenish the population losses incurred during the Second World War. The [[Socialist Republic of Romania]] under [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] severely [[abortion in Romania|repressed abortion]], (the most common [[birth control]] method at the time) in 1966,<ref name="Scarlat">{{Citation | language = RO | last = Scarlat | first = Sandra | url = http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_22541-Decreteii-produsele-unei-epoci-care-a-imbolnavit-Romania.htm | title = 'Decreţeii': produsele unei epoci care a îmbolnăvit România | trans-title = Scions of the Decree': Products of an Era that Sickened Romania | newspaper = [[Evenimentul Zilei]] | date = May 17, 2005 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221359/http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_22541-Decreteii-produsele-unei-epoci-care-a-imbolnavit-Romania.htm | archivedate = September 26, 2007 }}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Gail | last = Kligman | title = The Politics of Duplicity. Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania | place = Berkeley | publisher = Univ. of California Press | year = 1998 | url = https://books.google.com/?id=JhkImAIcqCMC&printsec=frontcover| isbn = 9780520919853 }}.</ref> and forced gynecological revisions and penalties for unmarried women and childless couples. The surge of the birth rate taxed the public services received by the ''[[Decree 770|decreţei 770]]'' ("Scions of the Decree 770") generation. A consequence of Ceaușescu's natalist policy is that large numbers of children ended up living in [[orphanages]], because their parents could not cope. The vast majority of children who lived in the communist orphanages were not actually orphans, but were simply children whose parents could not afford to raise them.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4629589.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Europe - What happened to Romania's orphans?|website=news.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=19 July 2017|date=2005-07-08}}</ref> The [[Romanian Revolution]] of 1989 preceded a fall in population growth. ===Balanced birth policies=== Nativity in the Western world dropped during the [[interwar period]]. Swedish sociologists [[Alva Myrdal|Alva]] and [[Gunnar Myrdal]] published [[Crisis in the Population Question]] in 1934, suggesting an extensive [[welfare state]] with universal healthcare and childcare, to increase overall Swedish birth rates, and level the number of children at a reproductive level for all social classes in Sweden. [[Demographics of Sweden|Swedish fertility]] rose throughout World War II (as [[Sweden during World War II|Sweden was largely unharmed by the war]]) and peaked in 1946. ==Modern practice by country== ===Australia=== [[Australia]] currently offers fortnightly Family Tax Benefit payments plus a free immunization scheme, and recently proposed to pay all child care costs for women who want to work.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} ===China=== ====One-child era (1979–2015)==== {{Main|One-child policy}} The most significant population planning system in the world was China's [[one-child policy]], in which, with various exceptions, having more than one child was discouraged. Unauthorized births were punished by fines, although there were also allegations of illegal forced [[abortion]]s and [[forced sterilization]].<ref name=dewey>Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Testimony before the House International Relations Committee Washington, DC December 14, 2004 {{cite web |url=http://statelists.state.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0412c&L=dossdo&P=401 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-07-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721062432/http://statelists.state.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0412c&L=dossdo&P=401 |archivedate=2011-07-21 }}</ref> As part of China's planned birth policy, (work) unit supervisors monitored the fertility of married women and may decide whose turn it is to have a baby.<ref>http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+cn0081) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303220526/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd%2Fcstdy%3A%40field%28DOCID+cn0081%29 |date=2013-03-03 }}</ref> The Chinese government introduced the policy in 1978 to alleviate the social and [[Environmental issues in the People's Republic of China|environmental problems of China]].<ref>Pascal Rocha da Silva, "La politique de l'enfant unique en République Populaire de Chine", 2006, [[Université de Genève]], pp. 22–28, cf. [http://www.sinoptic.ch/textes/recherche/2006/200608_Rocha.Pascal_memoire.pdf Sinoptic.ch] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128072311/http://www.sinoptic.ch/textes/recherche/2006/200608_Rocha.Pascal_memoire.pdf |date= 2007-11-28}}</ref> According to government officials, the policy has helped prevent 400 million births. The success of the policy has been questioned, and reduction in fertility has also been attributed to the modernization of China.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7000931.stm | work = BBC News | title = Has China's one-child policy worked? | date = September 20, 2007 | url-status = live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719103208/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7000931.stm | archivedate = July 19, 2008 }}</ref> The policy is controversial both within and outside of China because of its manner of implementation and because of concerns about negative economic and social consequences e.g. [[female infanticide]]. In oriental cultures, the oldest male child has responsibility of caring for the parents in their old age. Therefore, it is common for oriental families to invest most heavily in the oldest male child, such as providing college, steering them into the most lucrative careers, and so on. To these families, having an oldest male child is paramount, so in a one-child policy, a daughter has no economic benefit, so daughters, especially as a first child, is often targeted for abortion or infanticide. China introduced several government reforms to increase retirement payments to coincide with the one-child policy. During that time, couples could request permission to have more than one child.<ref>{{cite news |first=Max |last=Fisher |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/11/16/chinas-rules-for-when-families-can-and-cant-have-more-than-one-child/ |title=China's rules for when families can and can't have more than one child |work=The Washington Post |date=November 16, 2013 |accessdate=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610152024/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/11/16/chinas-rules-for-when-families-can-and-cant-have-more-than-one-child/ |archivedate=June 10, 2016 }}</ref> According to [[Tibetology|Tibetologist]] [[Melvyn Goldstein]], natalist feelings run high in China's [[Tibet Autonomous Region]], among both ordinary people and government officials. Seeing [[population control]] "as a matter of power and ethnic survival" rather than in terms of ecological [[sustainability]], Tibetans successfully argued for an exemption of [[Tibetan people]] from the usual [[family planning]] policies in China such as the [[one-child policy]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1525/as.1991.31.3.00p0043x | title = China's Birth Control Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region| journal= [[Asian Survey]] | author1-link= Melvyn Goldstein |first= Melvyn |last= Goldstein |first2= Beall|last2= Cynthia|date=March 1991|volume= 31 | issue= 3| pages= 285–303}}</ref> ====Two-child era (2016-)==== [[File:Population 2017 test.png|thumb|240px|Map of population density by country, per square kilometer]] In November 2014, the Chinese government allowed its people to conceive a second child under the supervision of government regulation.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-01/with-end-of-chinas-one-child-policy-there-hasnt-been-a-baby-boom | work=Bloomberg | title=Why China's Second-Baby Boom Might Not Happen | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306230412/http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-01/with-end-of-chinas-one-child-policy-there-hasnt-been-a-baby-boom | archivedate=2016-03-06 }}</ref> On October 29, 2015, the ruling Chinese Communist Party announced that all one-child policies would be scrapped, allowing all couples to have two children. The change was needed to allow a better balance of male and female children, and to grow the young population to ease the problem of paying for the aging population. The law enacting the [[two-child policy]] took effect on January 1, 2016, and replaced the previous one-child policy.<ref>{{cite news |title= China to end one-child policy and allow two |work= BBC |date= 29 October 2015 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-27/chinas-one-child-policy-officially-scrapped/7055834|title=China officially ends one-child policy, signing into law bill allowing married couples to have two children|publisher=[[ABC Online]]| date=27 December 2015}}</ref> ===Hungary=== The Second Orbán Government made saving the nation from the demographic abyss a key aspect and therefore has introduced generous breaks for large families and greatly increased social benefits for all families. Those with three or more children pay virtually no taxes. In just a couple years, Hungary went from being one of the countries that spend the least on families in the OECD to being one of those that do so the most.<ref>[https://visegradinsight.eu/the-v4s-greatest-existential-threat05082014/ Visegrad Insight - The V4’s greatest existential threat - Demographic decline and an ageing population - Filip Mazurczak - August 5, 2014]</ref> In 2015, it was almost 4% of GDP.<ref>[https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF1_1_Public_spending_on_family_benefits.pdf OECD - Public spending on family benefits]</ref> ===India=== {{Main|Family planning in India}} Only those with two or fewer children are eligible for election to a [[gram panchayat]], or local government.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Buch|first=Nirmala|date=2005|title=Law of Two-Child Norm in Panchayats: Implications, Consequences and Experiences|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=40|issue=24|pages=2421–2429|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4416748}}</ref> ''Us two, our two'' ("Hum do, hamare do" in Hindi) is a slogan meaning ''one family, two children'' and is intended to reinforce the message of family planning thereby aiding population planning. Facilities offered by government to its employees are limited to two children. The government offers incentives for families accepted for sterilization. Moreover, India was the first country to take measures for family planning back in 1952.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iussp.org/sites/default/files/event_call_for_papers/IUSSP_40FP_0.pdf | title=40 YEARS OF PLANNED FAMILY PLANNING EFFORTS IN INDIA | accessdate=26 June 2019 | author=Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia, Ravendra Singh | pages=1}}</ref> {{cquote |In the south west of India lies the long narrow coastal state of Kerala. Most of its thirty-two million inhabitants live off the land and the ocean, a rich tropical ecosystem watered by two monsoons a year. It's also one of India's most crowded states – but the population is stable because nearly everybody has small families… At the root of it all is education. Thanks to a long tradition of compulsory schooling for boys and girls Kerala has one of the highest literacy rates in the World. Where women are well educated they tend to choose to have smaller families… What Kerala shows is that you don't need aggressive policies or government incentives for birthrates to fall. Everywhere in the world where women have access to education and have the freedom to run their own lives, on the whole they and their partners have been choosing to have smaller families than their parents. But reducing birthrates is very difficult to achieve without a simple piece of medical technology, contraception.||[[David Attenborough]]|[[Horizon (BBC TV series)|BBC ''Horizon'']] (2009)|''How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth''}} ===Iran=== {{Main|Family planning in Iran}} {{contradict-self|section|date=March 2017}} {{update|section|date=March 2017}} After the [[Iran–Iraq War]], [[Iran]] encouraged married couples to produce as many children as possible to replace population lost to the war.<ref>{{cite web | title = 'Get back to your washing machine': Iran's ambitious women | url = http://mondediplo.com/2016/02/02iran | work = Le monde diplomatique | date = 2 February 2016 | accessdate = 27 April 2016 | last = Beaugé | first = Florence | url-status = live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160408082339/http://mondediplo.com/2016/02/02iran | archivedate = 8 April 2016 }}</ref> Iran succeeded in sharply reducing its birth rate from the late 1980s to 2010.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abbasi-Shavasi |first1=Mohammad J. |last2=McDonald |first2=Pater |title=National and Provincial-level fertility trends in Iran, 1972-2000 |journal=Working Paper in Demography |date=February 2005 |issue=94 |pages=9–10 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/156615121.pdf |accessdate=20 February 2019}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} Mandatory contraceptive courses are required for both males and females before a marriage license can be obtained, and the government emphasized the benefits of smaller families and the use of contraception.<ref>[http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update4ss.htm Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917192303/http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update4ss.htm |date=2008-09-17 }}</ref> This changed in 2012, when a major policy shift back towards increasing birth rates and against population planning was announced. In 2014, permanent contraception and advertising of birth control were to be outlawed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-to-ban-permanent-contraception-after-islamic-clerics-edict-to-increase-population-9662349.html|title=Iran bans permanent contraception in attempt to increase population|date=11 August 2014|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829204243/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-to-ban-permanent-contraception-after-islamic-clerics-edict-to-increase-population-9662349.html|archivedate=29 August 2017}}</ref> ===Israel=== In [[Israel]], [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] families with many children receive economic support through generous governmental child allowances, government assistance in housing young religious couples, as well as specific funds by their own community institutions.<ref>{{cite web|first=Dov|last=Friedlander|url=https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedFriedlanderpaper.PDF|title=Fertility in Israel: Is the Transition to Replacement Level in Sight?|series=Completing the Fertility Transition|publisher=[[United Nations]], Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division|year=2002|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211125436/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedFriedlanderpaper.PDF|archivedate=2017-12-11}}</ref> Haredi women have an average of 6.7 children while the average Jewish Israeli woman has 3 children.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/essays/117247/israeli-women-do-it-numbers | title=Israeli women do it by the numbers | work=The Jewish Chronicle | date=April 7, 2014 | accessdate=20 May 2014 | first=Paul | last=Morland | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521085616/http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/essays/117247/israeli-women-do-it-numbers | archivedate=21 May 2014 }}</ref> ===Japan=== [[Japan]] has experienced a [[population decline|shrinking population]] for many years.<ref name='economist-japan'>{{cite journal|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography|title=Japan's demography: the incredible shrinking country|journal=[[The Economist]]|date=25 March 2014|accessdate=25 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324183812/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography|archivedate=24 March 2017}}</ref> The government is trying to encourage women to have children or to have more children – many Japanese women do not have children, or even remain single. The population is culturally opposed to [[immigration]]. Some [[Japan]]ese localities, facing significant population loss, are offering economic incentives. [[Yamatsuri]], a town of 7 000 just north of [[Tokyo]], offers parents $4 600 for the birth of a child and $460 a year for 10 years. ===Myanmar=== In [[Myanmar]], the Population planning Health Care Bill requires some parents to space each child three years apart.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://apnews.com/7aa2bc05d5264653b5b969d337e89e16/myanmar-president-signs-controversial-population-law|title= Myanmar president signs off on contested population law|via= [[Associated Press]]|date= 23 May 2015}}</ref> The measure is expected{{By whom |date=August 2017}} to be used against the persecuted Muslim [[Rohingyas]] minority.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rohingyas: Still in peril: Myanmar's repression of Rohingyas continues apace |url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21653661-myanmars-repression-rohingyas-continues-apace-still-peril |accessdate=7 June 2015 |work=[[The Economist]] |date=6 June 2015 |location=Singapore |quote=This measure grants local authorities the power to mandate that mothers in areas deemed to have high rates of population growth have children no fewer than three years apart. Buddhist chauvinists in Myanmar have fomented fears of high birth rates among Muslims; this measure is likely to be used against Rohingyas. |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607020301/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21653661-myanmars-repression-rohingyas-continues-apace-still-peril |archivedate=7 June 2015 }}</ref> === Russia === [[Russians|Russian]] President [[Vladimir Putin]] directed Parliament in 2006 to adopt a 10-year program to stop the sharp decline in [[Russia]]'s population, principally by offering financial incentives and subsidies to encourage women to have children.<ref name='nytimes-russia'>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/europe/11russia.html| title=Putin Urges Plan to Reverse Slide in the Birth Rate| work=The New York Times| first=C.J| last=Chivers| date=May 11, 2006| url-status=live| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515125939/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/europe/11russia.html| archivedate=May 15, 2017}}</ref> === Singapore === {{main|Population planning in Singapore}} Singapore has undergone two major phases in its population planning: first to slow and reverse the [[Post-World War II baby boom|baby boom]] in the [[Post-World War II]] era; then from the 1980s onwards to encourage couples to have more children as the [[birth rate]] had fallen below the [[Sub-replacement fertility|replacement-level fertility]]. In addition, during the [[demographic transition|interim period]], [[eugenics]] policies were adopted.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.populationasia.org/Publications/RP/AMCRP12.pdf | title = Fertility and the Family: An Overview of Pro-natalist Population Policies in Singapore | first1 = Theresa | last1 = Wong | first2 = Brenda S.A | last2 = Yeoh | series = Asian MetaCentre Research Paper Series | date = June 2003 | issue = 12 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727182245/http://www.populationasia.org/Publications/RP/AMCRP12.pdf | archivedate = 2011-07-27 | access-date = 2013-11-30 }}</ref> The [[anti-natalist]] policies flourished in the 1960s and 1970s: initiatives advocating small families were launched and developed into the ''Stop at Two'' programme, pushing for two-children families and promoting [[sterilisation (medicine)|sterilisation]]. In 1984, the government announced the ''Graduate Mothers' Scheme'', which favoured children of [[Population Planning in Singapore#The demographic transition and the Graduate Mothers Scheme|more well-educated mothers]];<ref>{{cite book| first =Pekka | last = Louhiala |title= Preventing intellectual disability: ethical and clinical issues |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bb8grOsEyEC&pg=PA62|year= 2004|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-53371-3|page= 62}}</ref> the policy was however soon abandoned due to the outcry in the [[Singapore general election, 1984|general election of the same year]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Quah|first=Jon |title= Singapore in 1984: Leadership Transition in an Election Year |journal=Asian Survey|year=1985|jstor=2644306 |doi= 10.1525/as.1985.25.2.01p0247v |volume= 25|issue=2 |pages=220–231 }}</ref> Eventually, the government became [[pro-natalist]] in the late 1980s, marked by its ''Have Three or More'' plan in 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title=Singapore: Population Control Policies |url=http://www.photius.com/countries/singapore/society/singapore_society_population_control_p~11008.html |work=Country Studies |year=1989 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |accessdate=11 August 2011 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411115633/http://www.photius.com/countries/singapore/society/singapore_society_population_control_p~11008.html |archivedate=11 April 2011 }}</ref> Singapore pays $3,000 for the first child, $9,000 in cash and savings for the second; and up to $18,000 each for the third and fourth.<ref name= 'nytimes-russia' /> ===Spain=== In 2017, the government of Spain appointed [[Edelmira Barreira]], as "minister for sex", in a pro-natalist attempt to reverse a ''negative'' population growth rate.<ref name='spain-independent'>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-sex-tsar-population-crisis-baby-parents-demographic-government-a7599091.html|title=Spain appoints 'sex tsar' in bid to boost declining population|website=The Independent|date=25 February 2017|accessdate=25 March 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326052733/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-sex-tsar-population-crisis-baby-parents-demographic-government-a7599091.html|archivedate=26 March 2017}}</ref> ===Turkey=== In May 2012, [[Turkey]]'s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan argued that abortion is murder and announced that legislative preparations to severely limit the practice are underway. Erdogan also argued that abortion and [[Caesarean section|C-section deliveries]] are plots to stall Turkey's economic growth. Prior to this move, Erdogan had repeatedly demanded that each couple have at least three children.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/03/us-turkey-abortion-idUSBRE85207520120603 | work = Reuters | date = 2012-06-03 | type = article | title = US, Turkey: abortion | url-status = live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150102120545/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/03/us-turkey-abortion-idUSBRE85207520120603 | archivedate = 2015-01-02 }}</ref> ===United States=== Enacted in 1970, [[Title X]] of the [[Public Health Service Act]] provides access to contraceptive services, supplies and information to those in need. Priority for services is given to the poor or uneducated. In 2007, Congress appropriated roughly $283 million for family planning under Title X, at least 90 percent of which was used for services in abortion clinics.<ref name="pop" /> Title X is a vital source of funding for abortion clinics throughout the nation The services supplied by the Title X-funded abortion clinics support the termination of viable pregnancies. The goals of preventing healthy babies are accomplished by encouraging individuals to decide to terminate children no matter their level of development. Title X has made the consequences of unintended pregnancy falling on only the soon to be terminated life possible. It has allowed millions of American women to receive unnecessary abortion also known as anti-reproductive death care, plan the ending of their pregnancies and allow for lonely miserable lives wandering the streets as Karens. Title X is dedicated exclusively to funding family planning and reproductive health care services, mostly resulting in an reduced population of non-whites. Public Funding for Family Planning, Sterilization and Abortion Services, is only listed for these random selection of years FY 1980–2006 In the early 1970s, the United States Congress established the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future but it was the 70’s and acid being what it was, we also elected Nixon and Carter. ====Natalism in the United States==== In a 2004 [[editorial]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]] expressed the opinion that the relatively high birthrate of the United States in comparison to Europe could be attributed to social groups with "natalist" attitudes.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html?ex=1260162000&en=ebdde83f03fe6d2e&ei=5090 | title = The New Red-Diaper Babies | first = David | last = Brooks | newspaper = The New York Times | accessdate = 21 Jan 2006 | date = 2004-12-07 | url-status = live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311175027/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html?ex=1260162000&en=ebdde83f03fe6d2e&ei=5090 | archivedate = 2007-03-11 }}.</ref> The article is referred to in an analysis of the ===Uzbekistan=== {{Main|Compulsory_sterilization#Uzbekistan|l1=Compulsory sterilization in Uzbekistan}} It is reported that [[Uzbekistan]] has been pursuing a policy of forced sterilizations, hysterectomies and IUD insertions since the late 1990s in order to impose population planning.<ref name=iwpr-2005-11-18>[http://iwpr.net/report-news/birth-control-decree-uzbekistan Birth Control by Decree in Uzbekistan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019132115/http://iwpr.net/report-news/birth-control-decree-uzbekistan |date=2013-10-19 }} [[Institute for War and Peace Reporting|IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting]], published 2005-11-18, accessed 2012-04-12</ref><ref name=bbc-news-2012-04-12>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550 BBC News: Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405112247/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550 |date=2015-04-05 }} [[BBC]], published 2012-04-12, accessed 2012-04-12</ref><ref name=bbc-cc-2012-04-12>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fjx63 Crossing Continents: Forced Sterilisation in Uzbekistan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160903195248/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fjx63 |date=2016-09-03 }} [[BBC]], published 2012-04-12, accessed 2012-04-12</ref><ref name=moscow-2010-03-10>[http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/uzbeks-face-forced-sterilization/401279.html Uzbeks Face Forced Sterilization] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019203218/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/uzbeks-face-forced-sterilization/401279.html |date=2013-10-19 }} ''[[The Moscow Times]]'' published 2010-03-10, accessed 2012-04-12</ref><ref>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/ngos/omctuzbekistan39.pdf Shadow Report: UN Committee Against Torture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109020604/http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/ngos/omctuzbekistan39.pdf |date=2014-11-09 }} [[United Nations]], authors Rapid Response Group and OMCT, published November 2007, accessed 2012-04-12</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Antelava |first=Natalia |date=12 April 2012 |title=Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17612550 |newspaper=BBC World Service |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302071400/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17612550 |archivedate=2 March 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Antelava |first=Natalia |date=12 April 2012 |title=Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550 |newspaper=BBC World Service |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405112247/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550 |archivedate=5 April 2015 }}</ref> ==See also== * [[Antinatalism]] * [[Birth control]] * [[Eugenics]] * [[Human overpopulation]] * [[List of population concern organizations]] * [[Malthus' Dismal Theorem]] * [[Overconsumption]] * [[Steady-state economy]] * [[Population Matters#Pledge two or fewer|Pledge two or fewer]] (campaign for small families) * [[Planet of the Humans]] * [[Voluntary Human Extinction Movement]] ===Fiction=== * ''[[Logan's Run]] -'' State-mandated euthanasia at 21 for all people (30 in the film) to conserve resources * ''[[Make Room! Make Room!]]'' * ''[[Avengers: Infinity War]] -'' Antagonist and villain [[Thanos]] kills half of all living things throughout universe in order to maintain ecological balance *[[Shadow Children]] series - Families are allowed two children maximum, and "shadow children" (third children and beyond) are subject to be killed ==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=25em}} ==Further reading== * Mandani, Mahmood (1972). ''The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste, and Class in an Indian Village'', in series, ''Modern Reader''. First Modern Reader Pbk. ed. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973, cop. 1972. 173 p. SBN 85345-284-9 * {{cite book|author1=Warren C. Robinson|author2=John A. Ross|title=The global family planning revolution: three decades of population policies and programs|year=2007|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=978-0-8213-6951-7}} * Thomlinson, R. 1975. ''Demographic Problems: Controversy over Population Control''. 2nd ed. Encino, CA: Dickenson. ==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/info/q95-19-5.htm|title=A chat with Tim Flannery, senior research scientist, on Population Control|work=Karina Kelly, Peter Kirkwood, Owen Craig|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113095438/http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/info/q95-19-5.htm|archive-date=2010-01-13}} * [https://berkeley.academia.edu/OzzieZehner/Papers/911571/The_Environmental_Politics_of_Population_and_Overpopulation/ The Environmental Politics of Population and Overpopulation] A University of California, Berkeley summary of historical, contemporary and environmental concerns involving overpopulation * [http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/ UNmilleniumProject.org], UN Millennium Project, retrieved June 20, 2009. {{Human impact on the environment}} {{Population}} {{Population country lists}} {{Sustainability|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Population Control}} [[Category:Human population planning| ]] [[Category:Birth control]] [[Category:Human overpopulation]] [[Category:Population density]] [[Category:Climate change mitigation]] [[Category:Dark green environmentalism]]'