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How Population Growth Affects Hunger in the Developing World
August 1, 2005
More than 850 million people worldwide are classified as undernourished, many of whom suffer from chronic hunger (also known as food insecurity). Rapid population growth is intensifying food insecurity in parts of the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where some countries' populations are doubling and tripling every 30-50 years. Greater investments in voluntary family planning programs and supplies, including contraceptives, are urgently required to meet the needs of more than 200 million women worldwide who wish to delay or end their childbearing but do not have access to modern and effective contraceptive methods.
Toward 7 Billion: Why World Population is Still Growing
May 2, 2005
The world's population more than doubled in the last half-century and still is increasing. Absent an unexpected dramatic shift in family size or catastrophic increases in death rates, it could add 2.5 billion people before peaking. Worldwide, the largest group of young people ever is entering their reproductive years, requiring an expansion of family planning services to enable more couples to have the smaller families and later pregnancies they desire. In the long term, this will contribute to individual and family well-being, a slowdown in population growth and sustainable economic development.
Why Population Assistance Matters
December 1, 2004
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 179 nations agreed on a plan for achieving universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015. Today, vast differences remain in reproductive health status between rich and poor countries. The HIV/AIDS pandemic exacts a growing toll in human lives and threatens economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. Donors focused on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and concerned with poverty reduction, human rights, health and development must help ensure the adequate flow of financial resources (referred to as population assistance) for sexual and reproductive health services.
How the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Threatens Global Security
June 1, 2004
Continued high rates of AIDS-related illness and death in some of the world's poorest countries could impose unprecedented changes in their population age structures, stunt their economic development and retard their demographic transition the change from a population characterized by short lives and large families, to one with long lives and small families. These impacts promise to leave the most seriously AIDS-affected countries even more vulnerable to political instability and civil conflict. How the world responds to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in this decade could bear heavily upon the future of global security.
How Reproductive Health Services Work to Reduce Poverty
April 1, 2004
Reproductive illnesses and unintended pregnancies undermine economic development by weakening and killing adults in the prime of their working lives, by disrupting and cutting short the lives of their children, and by placing heavy financial and social burdens on families. In most developing-country settings, much of the loss of life and human productivity that is due to poor reproductive health could be prevented with affordable and cost-effective programs.
How Demographic Transition Reduces Countries' Vulnerability to Civil Conflict
December 1, 2003
During the last three decades of the 20th century, demographic transition - a population's shift from high to low rates of birth and death - was associated with continuous declines in the vulnerability of countries to civil conflicts (ethnic wars, antigovernment insurgencies and terrorism resulting in multiple deaths). This relationship suggests that a range of policies and programs that promote demographic transition by encouraging small, healthy and better educated families and longer lives will improve the prospects for political stability in developing countries and enhance global security in the future.
The Security Demographic - Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
August 1, 2003
Report detailing how the risks of civil conflict between either governments or state factions are in fact closely tied to demographic factors and the dynamics of human population.
Educating Girls: Gender Gaps and Gains
February 5, 1998
The world has made remarkable progress towards expanding access to education over the past several decades, a formidable achievement given the growth of the school age population during this period. Historically, girls have lagged behind boys in school enrollment; women represent two-thirds of almost one billion illiterate adults worldwide. Although school enrollment rates have increased for both sexes, in many countries girls still lack equal access to education.
Why Population Matters: An Introduction
March 15, 1996
Population growth around the world affects Americans through its impact on the economy, the environment, and safety and health, and the habitability of the world our children will inherit. While tracing cause and effect is difficult the evidence is accumulating that current rates of population growth pose significant and interacting risks to human well-being and are a legitimate concern for Americans.
