If China has a one child rule, why is the populaion still increasing?

Question

the answers that touch on generations adding cant not be right. They do not account for death, for them to make any sense no deaths would occur or in the short run, the life expectancy would have to rise GREATLY! It has not.

Answer 1

I heard they could live to 100 just by eating rice and dogs.

Answer 2

simple maths...... We live say 80 years so every 20 yrs  a new generation is ready to produce......so even 1 couple 1 child means that every 80 years the population will double

Answer 3

It works like this: Look at the population as a set of age distributions. Each age group has different numbers of members. Right now the largest age group in China is the 35-55. The very close next largest is 15-35. The size of the 15-35 group, which is the age when most births occur even with China's one child policy and with its disproportionately large male-to-female ration, still results in more births than deaths from all age groups combined. The death rate has lagged because the cohort which is the primary source of the mortality rate (65+) isn't anywhere as large as the one that caused the one-child policy (35-55) or the one responsible for births (15-35).

     This is why you can have a population growth despite less-than-replacement-level birth rates.  Eventually the population drops very quickly, as has recently started in Japan and Russia. This eventually happens when the largest sized age cohort approaches the national life expectancy, at which they pass-away leaving the smaller sized age groups.

Answer 4

The fact that only one child per couple is allowed, yet the population continues to rise, is an example of how many people live in China. It's the most populated nation on earth, and apparently most of them want kids.

Answer 5

One of the contributing factors to the increasing population in China can be , in my opinion, attributable to Hong Kong gaining a status of one of the financial capitals of the world. Hence, quite a few Europeans immigrate there. Moreover, their children will most probably have a child each, etc.

Answer 6

I don't know  but I happy

Answer 7

China is the 4th largest country in the world, and the process of collecting census/data after the communist ruling has not yet spread to the country side.

You may have accurate data in the cities, but at the rural area, it might all just be estimates... Likewise India, Indonesia, all developing countries, when the whole country has not learn to embrace technology, infrastructure not yet set, and literacy is not 100%, everything is based on estimates. So China may even have more than 1.4 billion ppl.

mabe next year China may have 1.6 billion ppl - who knows?

Answer 8

Thats what i've always wondered!

Answer 9

It's really quite simple. When a couple has a child and another couple has a child now you have 6 people verses 4. then that couple marries and has another child that makes 7 and so on and on and on and on....