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Population Planning: Noticeable Planning Policies Around The World

The document discusses population planning policies around the world from the 1950s to 1980s aimed at reducing population growth rates due to concerns over poverty, environmental degradation, and political stability. It specifically mentions China's one-child policy introduced in 1978, India's increased contraceptive usage and decreased fertility rate from 1970 to 2009, and Iran's steep population drop in the late 1980s through free contraception and family planning education rather than coercion. The document then discusses Pakistan's population policies including five-year plans, an independent family planning council, and increased budgeting for family planning programs and contraceptive prevalence rates at the provincial level.

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Population Planning: Noticeable Planning Policies Around The World

The document discusses population planning policies around the world from the 1950s to 1980s aimed at reducing population growth rates due to concerns over poverty, environmental degradation, and political stability. It specifically mentions China's one-child policy introduced in 1978, India's increased contraceptive usage and decreased fertility rate from 1970 to 2009, and Iran's steep population drop in the late 1980s through free contraception and family planning education rather than coercion. The document then discusses Pakistan's population policies including five-year plans, an independent family planning council, and increased budgeting for family planning programs and contraceptive prevalence rates at the provincial level.

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Population planning

In the period from the 1950s to 1980s, concerns about global population growth and its effects
on poverty, environmental degradation and political stability led to efforts to reduce human
population growth rates.

Noticeable planning policies around the world:

1. The most significant population planning system is China’s one child policy, in which
having more than one child is discouraged. The Chinese government introduced this
policy in 1978 to alleviate the social and environmental problems of China.
2. In India during 1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage has more than tripled (from 13%
of married women in 1970 to 48% in 2009) and fertility rate has more than halved (from
5.7 in 1966 to 2.4 in 2009) but unfortunately fertility rate is still high enough to cause
long-term population growth.
3. The Iran Miracle: Iran recorded the steepest population drop, faster than China’s one-
child policy even.
This came with no coercion. In the late 1980’s, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini decided that Iranian economy could not handle the population bulge
and used the pulpit.
Contraception was made available for free at government clinics and the state-
run television was to used to broadcast information about birth control.
Health workers increasingly began to educate patients on family planning to
space births.

Planning policies in Pakistan:

A population policy ideally encompasses many aspects of enhancing the lives of population by
ensuring education, healthcare, employment and basic right. Family planning or limiting
population growth is one of the components of such a policy.

Government introduced Five Year Plan system to control birth. An independent family planning
council was constituted and national board of family planning was formed to advise the
government on policy issues.

For implementation of population planning government increase budget gradually.

Post 18th amendments provinces and special areas government will develop health sector
strategies for 2012-2020 containing interventions for promotion of family planning (FB) and will
also regularly monitor the contraception prevalence rate (CPR). The national policy 2010 acted
as umbrella as provinces develop their own population policy, prioritizing the centrality of
population within their health and development plans.

A brief version of the Pakistan demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2016 was released and it
showed that the overall CPR had climbed to 33.4% of which approximately 25% was from
modern method.

Methods of Population Control:

1. Abstinence: is the practice of refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity.
2. Abortion: is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a fetus pr
embryo from the uterus, resulting or cause by its death.
3. Sterilization: is a surgical technique leaving male or female unable to reproduce.
4. One-child policy: one child limitation on families to control population like China.
5. Contraception or birth control: is an effective way to prevent effective fertilization while
having sex with a partner of opposite sex.

Policy level recommendation:

There is a dire need for clear government commitment to promote service rather than political
economy, regardless of who delivers services.

Build capacity of provincial Health or Population welfare department to advocate to finance


and planning department for producing funding for Family planning (FP). This should include
capacity to generate and use evidence for advocacy and to measure programs.

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