Chinapreterm birthWesternisationBackground: The rates of preterm birth in Chinese women and the potential effects of differing environments are poorly understood.Aim: To determine the rate of preterm birth in Chinese women in China, Hong Kong and Western Australia.Methods: The rates of preterm ...
Model Answer A: IELTS Band 5+ The figure given shows the birth rates of China and the USA between 1920 and 2000. Clearly, both rates fluctuated dramatically during this period. China’s birth rate rose from around 10 percent in the 1920s to 15 percent in 1935. Then it fell sharply to ...
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The number of newborns reached 9.54 million, 520,000 more than in 2023. However, the population still dropped by 1.39 million because deaths outnumbered births.The main reasons for population decline include low birth rates, fewer women of childbearing age, high living costs, and education ...
Before the coronavirus pandemic, China was already the centre of the global baby bust — but the fall in birth rates has accelerated in the two years since the virus first struck. 在冠状病毒大流行之前,中国已经是全球婴儿潮的...
The birth rates in China rose from 10% in 1920 to 15% in 1935. Later, the figure plunged to a low of 5% in the 1940s and was followed by an exponential growth to the peak of 20% in 1950. Next, the fertility rate dropped sharply to 8% ...
China has one of the fastest growing aging populations in the world. Along with the 40-year-long one-child policy, China has seen increases in life expectancy and a decrease in birth rates. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2019, 254 million ...
The WHO suggests caesarean birth rates should be no higher than 15 percent. China’s caesarean rate used to stay at five percent between 1950s and 1970s. However, it has rapidly increased since the 1980s. Most Chinese women choose caesarean birth due to the fear of pain or hoping to give...
which look to create a large middle-income group within the Chinese population, may present challenges when faced with a declining birth rate and ageing population. Given that many countries have seen their birth rates decline as...
While the very low fertility rates obtained from the various demographic surveys in the 1990s including the 2000 census are considered to be beyond belief,the very high sex ratios at birth(SRB)reported from the same surveys are widely accepted.The major objective of this article is to re-estima...