Why is china overpopulated?

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Most of these answers are correct and part of the bigger picture. In 2005 the population of Europe was estimated at 728 million, China is estimated at 1.36 billion.
Europe is 4,010,000 square miles China is 3,600,947.03 square miles. Which makes the fairly approximate in size and arable land is fairly approximate as well. If you factor in European descendants as well you get:

USA :300,000,000
Canada: 30,000,000
NZ: 4,000,000
AUS: 20,000,000
Plus a handful of others whicha re harder to clear up ie Brazilians, South Africans, etc... but add those up and you have 354,000,000 + 728,000,000 = 1,082,000,000. Really there's more but difficult to follow. So pretty comparable.
Further if you only include "Han" Chinese and minus people of Mongolian, Muslim, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Hakka and all the others minority descent, you can can cut China's numbers down, but they're all Asians and all in one country now so probably shouldn't.
It's really the world that is over populated, watch a movie called "The 11th Hour" were all in it together, but China in particular has always believed itself to be the centre of the Earth and thought there was no reason to explore, plus the Himalayas, deserts and oceans that buffered China made travel to anywhere good difficult if not impossible in the early days although they did populate Japan, what is currently North and South Korea and some believe North American Natives are Chinese descendants also.
Also, most of the Chinese population live where they do (along the east coast) because of favourable growing conditions that were able to support a higher population throughout history. They estimate at least 60 million people already lived in the area in 0 A.D.
And finally, in more recent times (1950's to 70's) Mao pressured people into commune's to procreate and they were crawling on each other like a big box of hamsters for years. Mao wanted to have enough people to win a nuclear war, but that war never happened and it caused another significant population increase.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Europe

A Simple Answer:
The Same Reason as the Europeans did but with no outlet.

A Not Simple Answer
If we can pull back all European population (emigrants) back to the Europe, i.e. from the North America, from the South America (mainly the Spanish and the Portuguese) and from the Australian Continent and New Zealand Islands.

Then we would have an overpopulated Europe. But China or India had no three huge Continents to thin out its population like the Europeans did. If you ask further: why is it so? Answer might lie in its non-aggressive culture-----China’s Columbus, Zheng He, did not grab land and sell slaves when he landed in Africa, about 60-70 years before European Columbus did.

Because first of all, there are a lot of Chinese people. Give each couple one child and you do the math. Then, there are all the foreigners going to China. Each year, many non-Chinese people go to China to make a living, that includes people from Europe, North America, South Asia, etc. Because they see that there are tons of opportunities in China, more than back home. You can say "no, home's better" but you can't deny that many people go to China to live/work each year. That contributions to the number of people living in China.

Is China Overpopulated

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There are 1.4 billion people living in China. Density is a problem in the cities, but not else where. Two things have helped China, the forced limits on family size and the growth of their economy. If you wanna compare a country that has population problems, both density and over population, look at India. The birth rate far exceeds the death rate. India is truly over populated.

because a leader wanted every Chinese person to have 10+ kids to make more people to build empires and castleswhich resulted in a very over populated China and that resulted in one child policy

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i dont know why is china overpopulated but i think is that they mostly dont fight in wars

to Richard: I gave u a thumb down, and I know more about China than u

help me out here, so u blame Chairman Mao(the government) for NOT introducing the one-child police back when he was alive? the policy that so many foreigners have trouble with today? not that I give a rat's behind about the foreigners. But I just don't understand how in the world can you blame Chairman Mao for the country being overpopulated.

so u would have the one-child policy in 1949? right after the war? which country's leader would do that?

Well first, China has existed for a long period of time, so there would obviously be more people there. Second, during the farming days, people had many children to help them farm the land and make profit. So over the years, population grew a lot. Today, China limits the number of kids to one child per family.