Immortality | Compare and Contrast

  • 1950s: According to China's census in 1953, the population of China is 583,000,000. The population rises fast as death rates fall, and birth rates are not curbed.

    1980s: In 1982, China's census reports the population to be 1,008,175,288, an increase of about 73 percent on the 1953 figure. At this time, China's population is about one-fourth of the global population.

    Today: The population of the Chinese mainland is estimated in July 2005 to be 1,306,313,812.

  • 1950s: Although population is rising rapidly, the communist...





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