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Moral complications aside, was China's one-child policy good from an economics perspective?

Basically I would like to understand whether it made sense to have fewer children with a higher standard of living despite the inversed population pyramid that is now developing.

Thanks in advance.
gpt
If you don't maintain the population then the ratio of workers to retirees won't be enough to support the welfare system.

More than that, the amount of resources available are not finite. More people means not just more mouths but also more workers. Human capital is one of the biggest resources, if it's skilled.

It's not how many people or resources there are, it's how you organize and utilize them that matters.