In raw numbers, the one-child policy’s human toll has been even greater than that of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, which caused a famine that killed around 36 million people from 1959 to 1961. And it exceeded that of the Cultural Revolution, in which large-scale political violence likely caused as many as another ten million deaths from 1966 to 1976.
从原始数字看，一胎政策的人道代价甚至比毛泽东的大跃进以及文化大革命还要大。1959—1961年，大跃进造成的饥荒夺走大约3,600万人的生命。而在文化大革命中，大规模政治暴力可能导致1966—1976年间一千万人死亡。