Comprehensive evaluation on development and control of population from 1990 to 2000 in Wuhan city

  Objective   To analyze the change of quantity and quality of population and its influencing factors.To make a comprehensive evaluation on the work of population development and population contorl from 1990 to 2000 in Wuhan city.

  Methods   To declare the quantity and the quality of population with descriptive analysis method and PQLI method respectively.To synthetically evaluate the work both quantity and quality by principal component method.

  Results   From 1990 to 2000, the growing rate of population was from 14.25‰ to 1.95‰.The birth rate was from 19.71‰ to 7.09‰.The crude mortality rate was from 5.46‰ to 5.14‰.The PQLI was from 85.61 to 90.19.

  Conclusion   The model of population development was low birth rate, low mortality rate and low growing rate.Population quality rose greatly.The gap of population quality between town and country still existed.