How Can We Stop Population Growths

The simplest and one of the most efficient means of slowing population growth is to delay the age of the first childbearing age by women.

Deferred marriage and childbearing can be very effective.

Stop early marriage: In Bangladesh, women marry at age 16 on the average, whereas in Sri Lanka the average age for marriage is 25. The World Bank estimates that if Bangladesh adopted Sri Lanka’s marriage pattern, families could average 2.2 fewer children. Increases in the marriage age could account for 40% to 50% of the drop in fertility required to achieve zero population growth for many countries.

Changes in attitude. Slogans: “ Small family is happy family”.

Knowledge of the means to control birth, and the ability to afford these means.

Education and job opportunities for young women can help reduce the number to a great extent.

Reducing poverty through economic development.                                                              

The best way to slow population growth is a combination of investing on family planning, reducing poverty, and elevating the status of women.

Future Population Trends

                                  

The Earth’s population has reached to 7 billion in September 2011. World Bank, from the logistic growth curve has made critical assumptions which are (1) mortality will fall everywhere and level off when female life expectancy reaches 82 years; (2) fertility will reach replacement levels everywhere between 2005 and 2060; (3) there will be no major catastrophe. Even assuming a rapid achievement of RLF, this approach projects an equilibrium world population of 10.1 to 12.5 billion. Developed countries would only increase from 1.2 billion today to 1.9 billion, but developing countries would increase from 4.5 billion to 9.6 billion. Bangladesh would reach 257 million. In these projections, the developing countries contribute 95% of the increase.