China’s “three children” policy signals a new era of demographic anxiety with low births

China’s demographic transition is perhaps the clearest example of the global trend. The world population soared in the twentieth century, growing from 1.6 billion in 1900 to about 6 billion in 2000. Now, forecasters predict that the majority of the world except for some countries in sub-Saharan Africa will experience Population decline by the end of the century. The United States, like China too Saw the slowest population Growth in nearly a century over the past decade. According to research published last year in scalpel, a British medical journal, states 23 countries, including Japan and Italy, whose populations will be halved by 2100.