The world population increases by about 2.6 people per second. In 15 years the number of people on Earth 7.3 to 8.5 million US dollars will...
The world population increases by about 2.6 people per second. In 15 years the number of people on Earth 7.3 to 8.5 million US dollars will be increased, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). In 2100 this figure is expected to reach 11.2 billion.
better living conditions for women and girls could change this trend so that "investment in the youth" This year the theme of the world population is day. Many aid organizations have taken this motto because they also see that the opportunities for women to improve one of the keys is overcrowding avoid.
Since the declaration of a day the world's population in 1989, the UN has tried to bring attention to strengthen the population growth in the context and the rights and health of mothers problems.
Key Education to stop pregnancies
"Every year about 74 million women and girls experience in developing countries an unwanted pregnancy, mainly because there is a lack of sex education and lack of birth control. It is also because women and girls are the same rights not given" said Renate Baehr, the head of the World Foundation of the population of Germany (DSW).
That is why more than 220 million women can not use contraception, although they want, Baehr said.
Young women in these countries in particular have little access to sex education and contraception had been, into a large number of teenage pregnancies in the world. In Niger, for example, it is estimated that there are 205 births per 1,000 women aged 16 to 19. This rate has not changed in Somalia since 1960, the age, the number of births rose 55-105 per 1,000 women in this age group.
Family planning is a need
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the second cause of death in women between 15 and 19 on age.
"The girls are not physically developed enough to carry a pregnancy to term without complications," Leonie Müssig DSW said.
The latest figures from the United Nations (UN) shows that small differences between the average number of children per woman, which have a significant impact on the growth of the world population. Assuming that the current average of 2.5 children per woman remains the same until the end of the century the world population will increase by 2100 to 26 billion people.
But a more conservative estimate used accepts the UN that the international birth to two children per woman developed over the next 85 years, which means that the world population to rise to only 11.2 billion. Statistically, a child other half would be less a world population mean of 7.3 billion by the year 2100th
Sex education and contraception associated with lower birth rates
More money for girls
Based on these calculations believe development experts that investment in education is a priority.
"Women and girls education would be able to realize their right to self-determination and voluntary family planning better," Müssig said. Better opportunities for women in the labor market would also mean a decrease in the birth rate.
"In addition, if more than one child survived through better medical care, the parents decide to have more children," he said.
Humanitarian organizations are calling on the federal government more money to give to projects that strengthen women's rights, health and reproduction.
"The increase in German development aid budget by 2017 is a step in the right direction," says Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel, President of the German humanitarian organization Bread for the World.
But after Füllkrug-Weitzel, increases the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development budget from 7.4 to 8 percent - although promising - clearly not enough.
