Increasing evidences worldwide are proving that global issues related to the population challenges have become major concerns in recent years. As a result, when the world is challenged by population problems, it is necessary for the governments to have certain responses and reactions. This essay will concentrate on the comparisons and the contrasts in the three population challenges of aging population, insufficient food supply and the declining of birth rates between the two main countries: China and the United States. Moreover, policies and solutions to these three population challenges in China and the United States will also be described in details.
It is well known that aging population has become one of the global issues. Both China and the United States are facing the problem of aging population. On the one hand, as Kapteyn (2010, S. 191) stated, both China and the United States present significant inflation in the percentage of the population above the age of 65 years old in the period between 1950 and 2050. On the other hand, as …show more content…
On the one hand, as Longman (2010, p. 54) observed, China is getting profits related to the early stage of the declining in birth rates. On the other hand, as Gardner (2012) stated, to some extent, the United States is facing the declining of birth rates since couples in the United States prefer to form smaller families than before. Both China and the United States need to concern about the solutions of raising birth rates. On the one hand, according to Covert (2013) , one of the policies to raise birth rates in the United States is to have better strategies that permitting occupied women to also raise children. On the other hand, as Chamie (2014) explained, one of the solutions to raise birth rates in China is the relaxation of China’s rigid one-child policy, which may cause an inflation of around 2 million births every
It is well known that aging population has become one of the global issues. Both China and the United States are facing the problem of aging population. On the one hand, as Kapteyn (2010, S. 191) stated, both China and the United States present significant inflation in the percentage of the population above the age of 65 years old in the period between 1950 and 2050. On the other hand, as …show more content…
On the one hand, as Longman (2010, p. 54) observed, China is getting profits related to the early stage of the declining in birth rates. On the other hand, as Gardner (2012) stated, to some extent, the United States is facing the declining of birth rates since couples in the United States prefer to form smaller families than before. Both China and the United States need to concern about the solutions of raising birth rates. On the one hand, according to Covert (2013) , one of the policies to raise birth rates in the United States is to have better strategies that permitting occupied women to also raise children. On the other hand, as Chamie (2014) explained, one of the solutions to raise birth rates in China is the relaxation of China’s rigid one-child policy, which may cause an inflation of around 2 million births every