Population and Policy: The Evolution and Effects of China’s One-Child Policy

The term Population pertains to the percentage of the number of inhabitants that live in a geographical area or location. It typically quantifies the size of individuals or animals in specific places. The specifics as regards how many people or animals reside in a given area are often attained through a process called census. A census is when the government, an organized group, or an administrative entity principally adopts effective and transparent models in counting and arriving after the number of people in a region, area, or settlement. This paper will undertake a series of empirical analyses on the concepts of population and policy. Why are they important and how do they impact society? Using China as the springboard of my empirical analysis, I intend to appraise the concepts of policy formation within the framework of its legalistic assessment in the political sense, overall impact on the environment and polity of the state; with the use of political theory as the theoretical framework of my analysis throughout the entirety of this paper. Organically, this study seeks to understand the evolution of China's one-child policy and its overall impact on all spheres of life. The numerous objectives for the exploration include the following; To understand the concepts of population and policy formation, to evaluate the implications of China's one-child policy, to evaluate the consolidation and transition of China's one-child policy, to define the concepts of population theory