Contraception - Family Planning and The World Population

Birth Control - Family Planning and The World Population

A few years ago the world health organisation calculated that sexual intercourse takes place 42 billion times each year or 1,300 times per second. Whilst the exciting developments in the treatment of infertility attract media attention and acclaim, it is the need to control population growth that has become one of the major environmental problems to be resolved. It has been calculated that every minute there are 270 births and 90 deaths somewhere in the world resulting in a net world population growth of 180 people. The world population is approximately 6 billion and increasing at the staggering rate of an additional one million people every four days and one billion every ten years. In the year 1000A.D. there were only one hundred million, so there has been a sixty-fold increase in the last thousand years and a ten-fold increase over the last 200 years. Ninety percent of the population growth is happening in the poorer countries. There have been estimates that in such countries a couple will need to produce five children to have a reasonable expectation of one son reaching maturity. Studies have shown that women in the underdeveloped countries would avoid further pregnancies if ade quate contraception were available. However, only 1% of aid to such countries is focused on family planning.

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