Population Policies"Population policies are policies designed by the government to address problems of high or low birth rates", In this essay I will look at the population policies of three different countries, China, Singapore and France. The aim of a population policy is to create a sustainable population level, which means a population level that does not harm the needs of future generations. This ties directly into China because it is the country with the largest population in the world and is still growing rapidly. Maintaining these birth rates would constitute a serious detriment to the needs of future generations. While some countries have problems in direct contrast to China's overcrowding problems, some countries are too underpopulated to function healthily and therefore create policies that encourage people to have more children. China is a large country in the Northern Hemisphere, located on the Asian continent, and borders countries such as Mongolia and Vietnam. China currently has an anti-natal policy, which means there is a policy against having children. This started because China had exponential population growth during the 1950s and 1960s, and birth rates reached 5.8 per 1000 per year. This prompted the introduction of population policy in 1979-1980. China's "one child policy" has become widely known over the years because it is the most drastic policy of its kind in the world today. The policy states that the couple can only have one child. While having two children isn't illegal, it means you don't receive any state benefits, meaning you have to pay for all your healthcare, education, etc. So only the richest can afford it. However, there are many problems with this policy. The first is that there will be an aging population, and therefore a high rate of dependency. Furthermore, since couples are only allowed to have one child, they prefer to have a boy, so there is a large gender imbalance in China today: for every 100 girls born there are 116 boys. This causes large-scale emigration of young Chinese in search of wives. Singapore is a small island in Asia, bordering Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore began as anti-natalist in the mid-1960s with major concerns about overpopulation on this small island. But their anti-natalist campaigns were so successful that in the mid-1980s the government had to reverse the policy due to concerns about underpopulation..