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1. Population
issues
Sub-Saharan, Africa

6. Labor force
Population density
34.7 317.4 millions (2008)
people/km²
Unemployment
Urban population rate
36.9% (2009) 22.5% (2008)
GNI (US$ billions, 2009)
Age dependency ratio
84.9 (2009) 879.6

9. • Africa is staying in stage 1
• High br high dr

11. Low level of
education
and affluence
Low level of
Importance
education
of children as
and lack of
part of
status and
Factors labour force
employment
affecting the
High Fertility
rates
The low cost
of raising and Low
educating urbanization
children

17. Why do you Think Africa is the way it
is Today?

18. • Tribes that are disharmony
• Different practices
• Lack of food nutrition
• Low educated
• lack of high tech

19. Others opinion on ‘Why do you Think Africa is the way
it is Today?’
• ‘Another reason is that • ‘Another one is that the
people and foundations government doesn’t care
send and send and send and about its people; all they
send money to them,but care is about money and
where does it go??????? money!!! And this is no fair
They are a gigantic when people are sacrificing
population, what will they their life for the government
do with the what they get is suffering
money, probably burn it as and starvation.’
coal to heat up their " food"
, and the government
swallows it. Oh, sorry there
is no government, I mean
the WEALTHY PEOPLE
SWALLOW IT. ‘

20. • ‘White men saw them and used them as animals just
because of their color. Sold them for thousands of years
as slaves around the world. Being mistreated, abused
, hit, killed, and used for labor without payment, for most
of slavery it was like this. Like people saw them as
worthless animals, only good for working, nobody cared
about educating them.’

24. • Rwanda is Africa's most • In a country where 90
densely populated non- percent of people depend
island nation on small-scale farming and
• population density of more with a GDP per capita of just
than 1,000 people per $500
square mile • Rwanda's people are in
competition for scarce land.

25. • Although there is recent Thomas Malthus, had a
improvement in farming miserable hypothesis: that
global population would
eventually outpace food
production capacity and
• Rwanda is expected to population size would
remain stuck in poverty thereafter be limited by
unless population war, disease and famine.
growth is decreased.

26. • fertility rate of 5.4 births per woman, and a
population growth rate of 2.9
percent, Rwanda’s population of 10.4 million
is on path to double in size in just 24
years, according to data from the Population
Reference Bureau.
• assumed most would not live to adulthood.

27. • So…
Rwanda’s government has made family planning
And awareness that high fertility is driving
poverty and hunger.

28. • “It was very difficult to talk about family
planning after the genocide,” he said. “People
wanted to replace those who had died.”
• Also due to religion

30. Why has it been so difficult to discuss
these issues in Africa?
African elites have long had the
perception that rapid population
growth was not an issue
o The vastness of Africa
o Abundance of resources
o Relatively low population
densities
o The threat of HIV/AIDS

32. Examples of
population
programs and how
1 they work.
Increase level of female education
2 Legal reform & access to family planning services
3 Economic and social development
4 Level of commitment of the leadership
Example : Tunisia

33. A few naysayers still claim that Africa is under-populated or not
enough to trigger economic development.
Claim is invalid
When fertility is high and
population growth rapid, we
face different kind of vicious
circle.
•Governments need to provide so many people
with education and health services but the
resources provide those investments are just not
there.
•Ideologies come into play
•As well as social conservative thinking.
Solution is to let people, especially women, decide for
themselves and to provide them with the means to extract
their choices.

34. How does gender play a role in the
population growth debate?
Women have little choice in the decision of child bearing.
They need to bear children as means of social recognition
& economic survival.
Some are poorly educated.
Family planning services are often inadequate.
Early marriage. Young girls become pregnant too early, extending child-
bearing year

35. Projects and programs in place to address the issue of population
growth
Data collection and statistical strengthening
Country Assistance Strategies and Country Economic memorandums
Prepared a Multi-sector demographic project in Niger
Created a new Ministry of population
New population policy
Launching of sensitization campaigns throughout the country
Convening of a successful national forum on population, development and gender
issues.