The Case for Slowing Population Growth

34. Reduction of population growth.

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We needed to reduce the population growth rate.

Another two fifths of the world population is already advanced on the path to lower population growth, but the remaining fifth is still growing very rapidly, largely because it has barely begun the transition to low fertility.

According to the 1990 census, the population of the Republic of Panama totals 2,329,329 inhabitants, with a density of 30.8 inhabitants per square kilometre, making it a country with a low population density.

Implementation of the national health policy through the Primary Health Care Programme has produced improvements in

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In 2003, the ratio of poor households was brought down to only 11.8 .

At present, one billion people live on less than 1 per day and 831 million people are undernourished.

To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and, by the same date, to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.

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The world today encompasses, therefore, countries at all stages of the demographic transition, that is to say, the transition from a regime of high fertility and high mortality producing low population growth to one where both fertility and mortality are low and produce again low rates of population change.

It is recognized that poverty, illness and ignorance, as well as large families are the main causes of low population quality.

But the longer term social impact is a reduction in population growth.

Ninety five percent of those infected live in low or medium income countries.

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The gross employment rate of the population is relatively low, about 28 per cent, corresponding to an unemployment rate of 72 per cent according to the most recent population census in 1991.

Low import duty receipts from petroleum importers

Because population is expected to increase substantially, especially in developing countries, the Programme of Action recognizes the usefulness of achieving a lower population growth as early as possible.

It must be pointed out that in 1980 the two lowest income groups, accounting for 22.5 per cent of the total population, had a proportion of poorly nourished people corresponding to 5.7 per cent of Tunisia apos s population.

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Those who enjoy social security to a lesser degree than the majority of the population

The human populations in these areas generally have a low level of immunity to malaria.

The average annual growth rate was 2.6 , below the 3.1 of 1991 census.

The greater part of the population of low income countries engages in agriculture for a living.

The education standards of the rural employed population are generally low.

This minimum amount increases as a family increases in size.

In accordance with the results of 1997 Census, the Northern region presents the lowest demographic density of all regions (17,4 inhabitants km2.).

In 45 per cent of the country apos s districts, which are home to 20 per cent of the country apos s population, the level of satisfaction of basic needs is defined as quot very low, low or below average quot .

In the case of Uganda, 64 per cent of the people are not unemployed but underemployed.

The urban population growth rate in 1993 was less than that of 1980, yet still positive.

63. According to statistical studies carried out in September 1993, around 2.5 per cent of employed persons received remuneration below the statutory minimum wage.

This figure is lower than in the 1981 census, when it was 2.4.

The low increase, which was less than the rate of natural population growth, reflected an observed tendency among parents to delay registration of newborn children.

The 1992 census had shown that renters tended to have lower incomes and to be young.

The fewer people there are, the less risk we face of heating up the planet. But, instead of accepting the natural decline in their populations, rich country governments absorb more and more people to hold down wages and thereby grow faster.

Fish exports were treated as industrial products and enjoyed low tariff rates.

10. According to the draft 1996 census, over the preceding 10 years, owing to continued migration, Tokelau s population had decreased by about 180 people and had reached its lowest level in 50 years.

For example, 52 per cent of our population is less than 19 years of age, 51 per cent of our people live in rural areas and the population density is 10.9 persons per square kilometre, which increases the cost of infrastructural development.

The average annual increase in the population between 1992 (year of the previous census) and 2001 was 3.2 per cent.

The rate of annual enrolment in primary and secondary education is very low and not commensurate with the actual population of children, who constitute over half of the population of Sierra Leone.

This drop was the result of certain demographic changes, brought about mainly by the significant decline in the fertility rate of Panamanian women.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

At least a quarter of the world's population lived in lower middle income countries.