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How can we control the population in Pakistan?
5 possible solutions to overpopulation
- Empower women. Studies show that women with access to reproductive health services find it easier to break out of poverty, while those who work are more likely to use birth control.
- Promote family planning.
- Make education entertaining.
- Government incentives.
- 5) One-child legislation.
What are the reasons of overpopulation in Pakistan?
Major factors responsible for high population growth in Pakistan are high fertility, low contraceptive prevalence rate, high unmet need of family planning, declining mortality, custom of early marriages, son preference, poverty, illiteracy especially of women and lack of women empowerment, religious constraints.
Does Pakistan have a population problem?
But because of high death rates and low life expectancy, the country’s total population is still 38.9m. At Pakistan’s growth rate — 3.6 — a population doubles in 19.4 years. A country needs to bring its growth rate down to 2 per cent a year to reduce its population.
How can we reduce population?
Reducing population growth
- Contraception.
- Abstinence.
- Reducing infant mortality so that parents do not need to have many children to ensure at least some survive to adulthood.
- Abortion.
- Adoption.
- Changing status of women causing departure from traditional sexual division of labour.
- Sterilization.
How can we overcome population explosion in Pakistan?
Defusing the Bomb: Overcoming Pakistan’s Population Challenge
- Pakistan at a Crossroads.
- Development Through the Bangladeshi Model and Education.
- Plugging Public Sector Holes with Private Initiatives.
- Engaging Youth and Political and Religious Leaders.
What is the significance of population control?
Without population control, an explosion will take place and as a consequence, access to the basic needs of human existence will be much more difficult to obtain. Economic growth will be affected if population growth goes unchecked.
Do people use condoms in Pakistan?
Condoms are widely available in Pakistan. But for women, views like Liaquat’s make access to contraception that much harder. In Pakistan’s rural areas, many of which are dangerous or isolated, oral contraceptives are simply not available.