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Quality of Tibetans Gains Obvious Improvement
The Tibetan population has undergone the change from "high-birth, high-death and low-growth rates" to a population reproduction type featuring "high-birth, low-death and high-growth rates", it was declared by chairman of the Tibet Autonomic Region, at the Tibet Family Planning Recommendation Meeting held on May 28.
Currently, the total population of Tibet has reached 2.55 million. The average life expectancy has increased from 36 years old in the early 1950s to the present 67 years old. The death rate of infants and pregnant and lying-in women has dropped by a big margin. The population quality has gained marked improvement. Change has taken place in the people's concept about marriage and child-birth. Family planning has gradually become a self-conscious action of the mass, especially farmers and herdsmen.
The chairman said that the gratifying changes mainly benefit from Tibet's economic development, the gradual popularization of culture, education and medical and health services and the gradual establishment of a social security system.
Before the 1970s, Tibet had adopted the policies of encouraging birth and population development. As a result, the population of the region increased from 1.15 million in 1952 to 1.89 million in 1982, an increase of 742,400 people in 30 years.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Tibet adopted the family planning policy known as "persisting in publicity and education, in providing quality services and making self-choice". The average number of children to be given birth by a Tibetan woman during her lifetime had decreased from 5.8 in the late 1970s to 3.5 in 1995.
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