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Taiwan

In less than 30 years time, Taiwan has done what many African and Asian

countries have struggled for 200 years to accomplish. The number of children a

Taiwan women averages bearing has been brought down from five to 1.7.

(Taiwan Journal, vol XXV).

This has made Taiwan the focus of world population studies. They

attribute this mostly to the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning. Taiwan

has been ranked by the World Population Crisis Committee number one in

promoting birth control and family planning. During the early years of the

program, the percentage of people using birth control was only around 15%.

Today the number is astonishing as it has risen to nearly 90%. They have

done this on a small budget, but attribute a lot of the success to the medical

workers for preaching to households to use birth control. South Korea spent

twice as much on its family planning and Indonesia trippled the ammount. The

family......

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