1984 - Population
Population
U.S. funding of international birth control programs is halted by order of the Reagan administration.
The Chinese government changes its family-planning program slightly to allow a small increase in exceptions to the one-child rule: from 5 to 10 percent of families are permitted to have two children and this will be increased to 20 percent.
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