AP Human Geography / Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
2.7 Population Policies
Notes
- Antinatalist: reduce births (China's former one-child policy, India's family planning).
- Pronatalist: encourage births (France, Sweden: paid leave, child benefits).
- Immigration policies can also shape population.
Practice
Paid parental leave and child payments are:
Encourage births.
China's one-child policy was:
Limited births.
A country with an aging population and labor shortage might:
Add workers.
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