List three factors that account for the rapid growth of the world's human population over the past 200 years.

In the 1960s, China's large population was growing so rapidly that there was a serious threat of mass starvation.

• The government established the world's strictest family planning and birth control program, promoting one-child families and provides contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortions for married couples.

• Married couples pledging to have no more than one child receive a number of benefits including better housing, more food, free health care, salary bonuses, and preferential job opportunities for their child.

• Between 1972 and 2011, the country cut its birth rate in half and trimmed the average number of children born to its women from 5.7 to 1

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