I think most of the others have missed the point.
China and India both have huge populations for two fairly simple reasons.
They have been around a lot longer as stable societies than any other cultures in the world.
Secondly, both are blessed by relatively huge areas of land that were easy to sustain large preindustrial societies with.
China and India have ALWAYS had huge populations compared to Europe and the Middle East. The have better soil, better weather and a head start.
Try to imagine what living in Western Canada or the US would be like thousands of years ago without advanced modern agriculture. The soil is poor without fertilizer and the weather is harsh.
Winter is the great killer. In Europe, populations were limited by a small broken up geography that limited effecient food dispersal. Like the MiddleEast, Europeans fought each other in highly destructive wars for thousands of years. China and India remained largely intact, even on the relatively rare occaisions they were invaded.
In China and India they could grow crops all year around and they could develop societies that rewarded an abundance of children and thus population growth.
In the Middle East and Egypt, although they started agriculture sooner, they suffered from unlucky geography. Wars have always been common there because there was so relatively little arable land and because they were completely surrounded by covetous tribes.
Also, without the replenishing effects of monsoon or a gigantic river system to redeposit silts for agriculture, the Middle east has never had the opportunity for easy living like China and India. Soil erosion is the big threat there. Well that and sectarian violence.
Anyway, it is only because of a very early headstart that China and India have populations of over a billion.
But consider that the USA has a population of 300 million. It is the third largest country by population. It has about one quarter of China's population and one third of India's, but has done so in only 200 years rather than 6000 years.
2006-11-27 04:01:10
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answered by aka DarthDad 5
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During the early days of the Communist Revolution, one of the more fundamental ideological beliefs was called the "mountain parable". This belief suggested that if you had enough people, you could move a mountain; so families were encouraged to have as many children as possible. This was essential to Mao Tse-tung's attempt to make China one of the most powerful countries in the world. It wasn't until the early 80's that Communist leaders realized that they had too many people. This is when they enacted the "One-Child" Policy. The policy has been revamped over the years. It's not as strictly upheld as some might believe and there have always been exceptions to the policy. One of the more recent changes concern the gender imbalance present in China. China is aware of this problem and created a program called the "Girl Care Project" which allows a family to have a second child if the first child is a girl. There is more to the program than just that but that is the most essential aspect of it. The last official estimate of China's peak population placed it at 1.7 billion people sometime in the next ten years before it will begin to decline.
2016-05-23 09:59:48
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-05-17 16:01:23
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answered by mary 2
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Simple Poor people in rural economy's rely having large families so as to be able to cope with high infant mortality taking away the workers of the future. Parents without children to work their land will starve in later life. well that's the way it used to be until the commies tried to reduce the population which reduced the amount of kids people were allowed to one per couple. This is why a lot of baby girls are abandoned at birth or worse They prefer boys who they hope will look after them in old age
2006-11-27 03:17:09
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answered by Jim G 3
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China's population didn't "get" big. It was always big. Throughout written history, China was one of the most populous societies in the world...
2006-11-27 05:48:34
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answered by NC 7
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Very big country, very big population.
It would be bigger but for the Government's historical policy of one child per couple.
For information, this has generated a demographic problem, as with us now, the number of working Chinese as a portion of the population is begining to fall significantly, causing future skills shortages, etc.
In contrast, India has never regulated family size, and will not suffer the same fate.
2006-11-27 03:10:10
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answered by lulu 6
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2016-05-17 07:04:22
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answered by ? 2
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Back before the commies controlled everything, China was a mostly rural manual-labor non-mechanized economy. Rural economies with family farms and other endeavors need laborers. The farmer's cheapest labor is his family, so more kids mean more workers.
2006-11-27 03:04:33
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answered by boonietech 5
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er, so you havent done biology yet then? and mao decided duriing he cultural revolution to LIMIT the number of children allowed...
the population is exploding exponentially... and even the chinks dont know where their economic system comes into play...
because MAO said no more kids...teh mums and dads spoiled their offspring..and we now have an epidemic of burger bellys... and no healcare worth a damn.
2006-11-27 03:02:13
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answered by Anonymous
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Because there so high tech and up to date with gadgets ect? Its a big place? Nice place?
2006-11-27 03:06:52
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answered by Anonymous
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