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The containment of world population growth.

Abstract：

:The world has reached the present position of unprecedentedly rapid population growth not by achieving uniquely high fertility but by bringing about extraordinarily low mortality. The high growth rate and the built-in momentum of the age structure are obstacles to achievement of an acceptable standard of living for most of the world's population. Although government population programs have the potential to curb this growth rate, this potential has not been realized, and such programs are too often perceived both by their administrators and the population concerned as an end in themselves rather than a means toward a better standard of living. It is in this latter perspective, and in the context of the total development process, that population programs should be implemented. :An analysis of world population growth concludes that the basic problem is less a question of limiting future growth than of economic development and of creating better societies at given levels of economic development. It is contended that world population will reach stability only at the end of the next century at a total of 15 billion. The present rapid population growth has a momentum that is impervious to neutralization due to: 1) The mechanical nature of the momentum is high growth rate populations. Thus, girls already born but under marriageable age may number twice as many as the women already in childbearing age; and 2) social change may be slow in conforming to new social and economic conditions. Thus, in addition to the lack of communication and the logistical problems in developing countries that p revent people from utilizing family planning services, resistance toward and suspicion of family planning are widespread. It is suspected that family planning is politically motivated; and on the individual and family level, acceptance of family planning is equated with the abandonment of traditional society. In addition, little economic or social gain from fertility reduction is perceived by the potential acceptor. In addition to improper strategy by family planners, the movement to control world population growth is believed to be endangered by single-issue creeds and sects such as the advoates of zero population growth and by proponents of conservation of resources and of receiving the environment. Thus, simplistic solutions should be avoided. Although the real immediate problem will be economic growth, family planning programs should be given a thorough trial as the means whereby world population growth will eventually be stabilized.

journal_name

Stud Fam Plann

journal_title

Studies in family planning

authors

Caldwell JC

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1975-12-01 00:00:00

pages

429-36

issue

eissn

0039-3665

issn

1728-4465

journal_volume

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The containment of world population growth.