Access the results of seeking to manage natural increase in a county with a population policy

Great situation to use case study knowledge, that of China's one-child policy or Russia's anti-natalist policies etc. Initially we need to understand what the question is asking us and focus on the governmental policy, what it is and what it is trying to achieve, then we need to access the results of it. Was it successful or not? Looking at China's one-child policy: Initially China's natural increase was increasing at too high a rate, leading to overpopulation. In 1979, the one-child policy was introduced allowing families to only have a single child in order to try and decrease the number of children being born, decreasing fertility rate and reducing overpopulation levels. Successes: Able to reduce the population's high fertility rate. Prevented 300 million births. Failures: Led to shortages in the younger generations and a shortage of workforce. There was a high increase in the number of abortions and a change in the sex ratio to 115:100, in favour of men as families wanted a son to continue the family name. Many more single men as unbalanced levels of males vs females. Rich were able to have more than one child and pay the fine for having a second child. Created a generation of spoilt only child children. Conclusion: The policy was successful in what it set out to do, successfully preventing over 300 million births, lowering fertility rate and slowing the rate of population increase in China. However, as a result it led to many social, environmental and economic implications, as listed above.