No One Child Policy?

If the People's Republic of China never instituted the One Child Policy, what would the country, and the world, look like today? How large would China's population be?
 
If the People's Republic of China never instituted the One Child Policy, what would the country, and the world, look like today? How large would China's population be?

Their would likely be alot more immigration from China as well as alot more efforts in expanding Westward and settling people their to keep off the
population pressures on the already populous East.

As for China's population it's estimated that since 1979 the One Child Policy has prevented a population increase of between 350-400 million,
therefore ATL China's population would be somewhere between 1.7-1.85 billion instead of 1.33 billion.
 
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In all honesty, probably not that much different. If fertility rates in richer and less dictatorial Confucian societies are any indicator, China's birth rate would have fallen as drastically as it did, and in any case the One Child Policy doesn't apply to ethnic minorities (in fact, the TFR in one part of Tibet is still over five), or most rural areas if the first child was a girl. There would still be a frightening gender imbalance, and already many Chinese men are importing their brides from abroad.
 
I think the lives ruined by the One Child policy will never be ruined and one of that is the people with no access to education because of the One Child policy, so there might be more possible influential people from China than in OTL.
 
I think the lives ruined by the One Child policy will never be ruined and one of that is the people with no access to education because of the One Child policy, so there might be more possible influential people from China than in OTL.

Having a few hundred million more people, mostly born to farmer-labourers is'nt going to change anything in regards to education.

It's not like those who went over the limit had to hide their children and never send them to school for fear of them being taken away or something, they just recieve a one-time fine.
 
Generally worse off over all. China would be poorer, hungrier, more polluted. The gender balance problem will be somewhat better, but imbalance remains an issue.
 
It's not like those who went over the limit had to hide their children and never send them to school for fear of them being taken away or something, they just recieve a one-time fine.

Some people in China did hide their Children and denied them of access to education just to avoid that fine so having no one child policy will better these people's lives.
 
China would be somewhat more strained and definitely more reliant on food imports, but the birth rate would drop like it is in OTL and the problem would stabilize as China pursues similar economic policies to OTL. We would definitely get a different younger generation, no "little emperor" phenomenon.

On the whole, not that much different. I don't think it was worth all the forced abortions and little emperors.
 
Some people in China did hide their Children and denied them of access to education just to avoid that fine so having no one child policy will better these people's lives.

You can't apply your lack of knowledge in such a blanket way without being called out.
 
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