Pakistans population to reach 210m by 2020
Pakistans population to reach 210m by 2020
From the Newspaper | Our Correspondent
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Pakistans population will reach 210 million in the next nine years by 2020 a situation that will burden its limited resources making it difficult for them to meet the requirements of additional people.
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world population will surpass 7 billion milestone on Monday and despite major decline in the average of children per woman, the population will continue to swell at least till the middle of the 21st century.
Pakistans population in the mid-2011 was estimated to be 177.1 million higher by 2.1 per cent than the last years. The countrys population has been growing at a decelerating pace but still Pakistan has one of the highest population growth rates in the world.
With a growth rate of 2.05 per cent a year and an annual addition of three million persons Pakistan faces a challenge to address the issues of poverty reduction and economic development.
Such an annual addition to the overall size of population against the backdrop of low socio-economic indicators not only dilutes the results of development efforts but also puts pressure on the countrys limited resources.
It also allows little progress in the field of social services such as health, housing, clean water, food and nutrition and sanitation.
According to official statistics, Pakistan is going to become young as 60 per cent of its population is between 15 and 65 years of age. The expected, gradual shift to a youthful age structure is because of decline in birth and death rates.
Pakistan is grouped with countries having moderate level of urbanisation; but it has the highest share of population living in urban areas among the South Asian countries.It has also been projected that about half of Pakistans population will be living
in cities by 2030.
The UNFPA says the worlds 7 billion milestone is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action.
Of the worlds seven billion, 1.8 billion are young people between the age of 10 and 24 who hold the key to the future with the potential to transform the global political landscape and to propel economies through their creative activity and capacities
for innovation.
Today, 42 per cent of the worlds population lives in low-fertility countries, that is countries where women are not having enough children to ensure that on average each woman is replaced by a daughter who survives till the age of procreation.
Another 40 per cent lives in intermediate-fertility countries where each woman is having, on average, between 1 and 1.5 daughters, and the remaining 18 per cent lives in high-fertility countries where the average woman has more than 1.5 daughters.
Pakistan
Pakistans population to reach 210m by 2020
From the Newspaper | Our Correspondent
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Pakistans population will reach 210 million in the next nine years by 2020 a situation that will burden its limited resources making it difficult for them to meet the requirements of additional people.
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world population will surpass 7 billion milestone on Monday and despite major decline in the average of children per woman, the population will continue to swell at least till the middle of the 21st century.
Pakistans population in the mid-2011 was estimated to be 177.1 million higher by 2.1 per cent than the last years. The countrys population has been growing at a decelerating pace but still Pakistan has one of the highest population growth rates in the world.
With a growth rate of 2.05 per cent a year and an annual addition of three million persons Pakistan faces a challenge to address the issues of poverty reduction and economic development.
Such an annual addition to the overall size of population against the backdrop of low socio-economic indicators not only dilutes the results of development efforts but also puts pressure on the countrys limited resources.
It also allows little progress in the field of social services such as health, housing, clean water, food and nutrition and sanitation.
According to official statistics, Pakistan is going to become young as 60 per cent of its population is between 15 and 65 years of age. The expected, gradual shift to a youthful age structure is because of decline in birth and death rates.
Pakistan is grouped with countries having moderate level of urbanisation; but it has the highest share of population living in urban areas among the South Asian countries.It has also been projected that about half of Pakistans population will be living
in cities by 2030.
The UNFPA says the worlds 7 billion milestone is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action.
Of the worlds seven billion, 1.8 billion are young people between the age of 10 and 24 who hold the key to the future with the potential to transform the global political landscape and to propel economies through their creative activity and capacities
for innovation.
Today, 42 per cent of the worlds population lives in low-fertility countries, that is countries where women are not having enough children to ensure that on average each woman is replaced by a daughter who survives till the age of procreation.
Another 40 per cent lives in intermediate-fertility countries where each woman is having, on average, between 1 and 1.5 daughters, and the remaining 18 per cent lives in high-fertility countries where the average woman has more than 1.5 daughters.
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