Writing Feedback / china's one child policy has been carried out successfully [2]

The chart illustrates the proportion of single-child families in cities, outskirts and rural areas of China between 1980 and 2000.
It is clear that in 1980, the proportion in cities, decreased dramatically over the period shown, but the proportion in 2000 was significantly higher.
In the year 1980, the proportion in cites and outskirts reached 50% and 40% respectively, while the proportion in rural areas was only 10%. Ten years later in 1990, the proportion almost doubled in cities reaching 95% and that in outskirts increased 30% from 40% to 70%, while rural areas experienced a rise of only 10% reaching 20% of the total in those areas.

In 2000, the proportion in cites was the same as in the outskirts. There is still a long way to go before the proportion of single child families in rural areas reaches the same level as that of cities and outskirts