Analysis of the population policy in the low birth rate countries. Their experience and some results

Abstract

This article presents the short overview of the foreign literature, in which has been considered the population policy and some results of the implementation of such approaches. The objects are the researches of the low rate birth countries which have the same kind of problems as Russia. We consider the essential mechanism which helps the developed societies to stimulate the childbirth. It has been reviewed the results of the different types of population policy in several groups of the countries: Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries; Japan and South Korea; Southern, Western and Eastern Europe.