While all these numbers are mindblowing, the increase of Iraq's population appears to be unbelievable. How can you at all add +50% in just 15 years, which would correspond to a doubling for each generation? And how can you do so when your country is basically in a war for most of the 15 years?
Basically birth rates are still very high. Despite the war increasing the death rate and migration rate, it also has prevented the country from modernising and families still have double the number of children compared to neighbouring countries.
Higher birth rates are also correlated with low female empowerment. Women in many countries get to choose how many children they will have. Iraqi women have less choice.
Modesty apart, but India should consider the China's one child per couple model. In some years it will pass China by population, and I think it's very worriyng.
Indian culture prides itself on numerous kids (especially boys). With a very mismanaged government that isn't nearly as authoritative as that of China, enforcing a one-child policy would be difficult. What India needs to do is break the taboo associated with sex and genuinely start talking about protected sex.
One child policy was a failure. The birth rate in China is lower than replacement rate and in the coming decades China is going to face a decline in population not very different from what Japan is facing right now. As for India, birth rate is 2.3 just little bit away from replacement rate. If you divide that by states, most of the southern states are even below the replacement rate. Excluding some northern states, most states are around the replacement rate.
One child policy was actually more than a failure, it was a disaster. Because of a preference for a boy to carry on the family name and tradition, there are ~30 million surplus boys from that generation. They unsurprisingly have had a hard time finding wives, and there is a corresponding uptick in crime of all kinds. Look into it a bit and you'll realize that these kinds of social experiments inevitably lead to terrible unintended consequences.
...And think about this: The one child policy actually genuinely touched only around one third of the population. If you're not Han, you can have more kids no problem. If you are rich, you have as many kids as you like (just pay a fine per extra kid). If you seem to live in the countryside and your first kid is a girl, you can have another one. I say seem, because many people played the rules. If you have a kid in Hong Kong or Macau (or anywhere outside China), it's outside the one child policy. If you are able to have a kid without the govt finding out (eg often dumped with countryside relatives who hide the child), you can have more (which led to further problems since if a person does not legally exist, you're free game to all sorts of criminals and no one can help you, because you don't exist, plus you cannot live a normal life eg get formal education, a proper job, legal residence/home, licences of all kinds and so on). And there's more.
one child policy wasnt a failure. As there were less children per family you know gave more attention to that one child and be more likely to pay for their education and give an overall better life. Creating these higher quality citizens has made China the superpower it is today
No, India has actually done a (mostly) great job family planning. The fertility rate is just above the replacement rate of 2.1 and will probably get there in a few years. Some states are already below the replacement rate. They did this mostly by raising awareness of the benefits of family planning rather than using force the way the Chinese government did (barring that one awkward period when Indira Gandhi forcibly sterilized people), and they did so in a way that ensures they retain a large workforce in the future. The major drawback to this is that Indian culture naturally prefers men, so a lot of families put emphasis on raising male children, leading to India's horrendously skewed sex ratio today (which is also a problem in China). Overall, I think this sex ratio and the continuing sexist attitudes toward female children in India is a more major concern than population growth.
Pretty easy. These were the first 10 countries I guessed. Basically just go by population excluding the countries that are declining in population (Japan, Russia)
This would have been more interesting if it measured population increase by percentage, rather than by sheer numbers. As it is, it's basically a list of the most populous countries in Asia, except Japan and Russia, each of which has a population decline that has been well-documented. Only Iraq took some thinking.
Iran Iraq & Turkey should not be on this list! the middle east is an open debate as weather or not it's classed as Asia as the people don't self associate as "Asian" and that is boarders both Europe and Asia , so the Quiz is misleading in the title.
Perhaps you confuse a US census definition with a continental classification? The continent of Asia is different from the US ethnic definition of "Asian" just as the Caucasus region is different from so-called "Caucasians".
Asian - Refers to everybody from the continent of Asia
They may not be your stereotypical 'Asian' but everybody stretching from the middle east to North Korea is Asian. The stereotypical asians are actually just oriental people
I mean, the quiz says "Asian countries", so Turkey should be included as a whole. Even if a baby is born in the European part of Turkey, technically it is born in an Asian country
Sad...there is absolutely no hope of sustaining our eco-system or educating and modernising most of these countries. In many cases women are 2nd class citizens who are forced into early marriage and prohibited a proper education or access to contraception.
I'd disagree for most of these countries. Birth rates are going down in all of these countries and in most of them, it is close to replacement rate. Female education has also improved. There might not be formal sex-ed, but there is family planning.
Not saying that there aren't serious issues with women's rights in Asia, but even with those problems, most of these countries are modernizing and developing. I find Africa more concerning since they still have very high birth rates with little access to contraceptives or family planning.
only a tiny bit but most of the people in Turkey as well as the capital are in the Asian part. There is no significant city in the European part except half of Istanbul
The most significant part of Turkey is the peninsula in antiquity known as Asia Minor. The 2nd most significant is the peninsula that to the Phoenicians was known as Europa - where the continent gets it's name. It couldn't be more both Europea and Asia if it tried. Unless maybe it still controlled a bigger chunk of the Balkans. Currently it's mostly in Asia.
Basically birth rates are still very high. Despite the war increasing the death rate and migration rate, it also has prevented the country from modernising and families still have double the number of children compared to neighbouring countries.
PS: Did Asian Studies at the uni + field.
They may not be your stereotypical 'Asian' but everybody stretching from the middle east to North Korea is Asian. The stereotypical asians are actually just oriental people
Reason is similar why Russia is considered as Europe and not as Asia.
Not saying that there aren't serious issues with women's rights in Asia, but even with those problems, most of these countries are modernizing and developing. I find Africa more concerning since they still have very high birth rates with little access to contraceptives or family planning.