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Egypt Seeks to Reduce Fertility
Egypt aims to reduce its surging fertility rate over the next 15 years, a government minister said Tuesday, in an effort to address overpopulation concerns in the Arab world’s most populous country.
With around 90 million people — a population the United Nations projects to hit 103 million by 2030 — Egypt has struggled for decades to provide its citizens with jobs and services. Most Egyptians live on a tiny sliver of land along the Nile River and the Mediterranean coast, away from the vast desert that makes up most of the country.
According to a plan laid out by Minister of State for Population Hala Youssef, the government will provide financial incentives to keep children in school, expand family planning services and boost public awareness — while working closely with non-governmental organizations and local communities.
The aim is to get Egyptian women to attain a fertility rate of 2.4 children, she said, speaking on the sidelines of a conference on youth hosted by the U.S.-based NGO Population Council in Cairo. Women currently give birth to 3.5 children each on average.
“This is the target,” Youssef told The Associated Press, adding that the plan aims to reduce the rate to 3 over the next five years. “We’re coordinating with other ministries on this issue, for example the ministry of social solidarity, to give financial compensation to families to keep their girls and boys in school.”
A 2014 study by Egypt’s Health Ministry and an organization funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development showed that the birth rate, which had been falling since at least 1980, rose dramatically after 2008.
Youssef said her ministry, created three months ago, also focuses on childhood and motherhood and is seeking to avoid using negative incentives.
The plan, she said, focuses in part on young married couples with only one or two children, advising them not to have big families — a traditional goal for many in both the countryside and crowded urban centers.
13 Comments on "Egypt Seeks to Reduce Fertility"
Plantagenet on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 6:12 pm
Moslems at the time of Muhammad practiced coitus interruptus. Modern Moslem scholars have noted that this form of birth control was acceptable in the 7th century, and from that infer that more modern forms of birth control are acceptable today.
Davy on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 6:42 pm
You all heard of the TOo’s. Too little, too late, too little money, too little interest, and too many people. Egypt is doomed.
Speculawyer on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 6:56 pm
Well it is about time! These countries are a mess because they grow their populations far faster than they can grow their economies. And it has been decades since Egypt has been able to feed itself. And I’d guess that the tourist industry is down because a lot people are probably don’t want to go there these days.
GregT on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 7:11 pm
Coming to a locale near you soon spec. Economies cannot grow forever, and when they go into decline, our populations will do the same. Prepare yourself, or face the consequences.
Hubbert on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 7:31 pm
I don’t think America is in any better shape with 100 million people not working and 50 million people on food stamp. Yet, these idoits don’t have enough sense to close off the border.
Speculawyer on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 9:24 pm
Our people are already at around replacement level of population growth. If we cut off immigration we’d probably be around even. Most western industrialized countries are around replacement levels. But too many nations are still enthralled by superstitious nonsense and reproduce faster than they can support themselves.
GregT on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 10:18 pm
Our population is in overshoot Spec. If you live in a city, your way of life is not sustainable. IE: It is not going to last. If you are in a city when the economy comes crashing down, good luck trying to get out. Ever. If I were you, I wouldn’t be focussing so much of my attention on what other countries half way around the planet are, or are not doing. I would start paying more attention to my own predicament at home.
Makati1 on Tue, 9th Jun 2015 10:21 pm
Speculawyer, immigration, legal and illegal, is NOT going to stop in the US. TPTB are still working towards a North American Union behind the scenes.
I also just read that the two trade treaties being pushed will create an EU like interweaving of visas(i.e. Schengen)that will allow travel to any of the signatory countries by citizens of the other signatories. Better check out the countries signing on to them. Mexico is one of them.
The One World Government idea requires a total leveling of the classes all over the world, in order for it to work. Guess who has the farthest down to that level? Hint, it is not Asia. Europe is well under way and Japan is almost there. Ditto for Australia. Canada is becoming more ‘Americanized’ every day and is beginning to see the slope ahead.
look around and tell me that everything the US government has done in the last 30+ years has NOT been a means to lower living standards in the US. Endless wars that deplete the resources that used to go to infrastructure and the economy. Hidden inflation. Trillions printed and squandered on who knows what. Zero interest, and soon, bank bail-ins, confiscation, etc. Failure of retirement plans growing daily. Even the GMO food and fraked water is being used to kill off Americans.
No, the destruction of America is planned and well under way. The destruction of the rest will take longer, but be less painful, I think. Not as far to fall.
HARM on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 4:12 am
Let’s give Egypt some credit here. At least their leaders –unlike ours– are starting to acknowledge that population cannot grow forever and that physical limits exist. Unfortunately for them, they are already well past overshoot, and their oil production has already peaked and gone into decline, now producing much less oil than they require to satisfy domestic needs much less make income from foreign exports.
HARM on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 4:20 am
Export land model’s a real bitch.
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/peak_oil_food_fig11.png
Davy on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 6:41 am
Mak said “look around and tell me that everything the US government has done in the last 30+ years has NOT been a means to lower living standards in the US. Endless wars that deplete the resources that used to go to infrastructure and the economy.”
Mak it seems China is in the same boat and what happens in China is an indication of the rest of Asia: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-09/sick-man-asia-chinas-looming-health-disaster.
Kenz300 on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 7:04 am
Too many people and too few resources…….
If you can not provide for yourself… you can not provide for a child……..
Endless population growth is not sustainable.
BobInget on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 6:59 pm
Egypt’s president should simply hand out free
back-lit headshots of himself to hang in every bedroom. Best birth control ever.
If that fails because of power outages, everyone could turn to excess drinking.
Russia’s population has been below replacement levels for years.
All Egyptian children could learn Japanese.
AS it stands, Japan in fifty years with everyone on pensions, there will be
no one remaining to make Toyota Pick-ups for the latest guerrilla group’s ‘technical’.
Seriously, poor people always need lots of extra children. If Saudi Arabia cuts off their free oil, everyone could more into one of those huge pyramids.
Then, there’s always part-time work as a gender neutral suicide bomber. The only such position available in the Arab world. Oh, Not exactly.. all the virgins offered to women
are 14 year old boys with faces covered in acne.
Yesterday, a terrorist group trying to gain popularity:
A suicide bomber has been killed in an attack targeting the ancient Karnak temple in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, officials have said, the second attack in just over one week targeting Egypt’s vital tourism industry.
Another attacker was shot dead by authorities during the attack on Wednesday, while a third was arrested, officials said, adding that a police officer was injured.
Officials said no civilians were injured in the attack. Luxor and its ancient sites are frequented by millions of foreign and Egyptian tourists every year.
Images from the scene of the explosion showed what appeared to be body parts on the ground in front of a tourist shop and atop a public restroom, the Reuters news agency reported.
Authorities said police have foiled two other suicide attacks also targeting the Nile-side temple, one of the country’s main tourist attractions, rivalling the pyramids at Giza.
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said he had, in coordination with the Interior Ministry, ordered security to be bolstered at ancient sites across Egypt.
The Karnak complex is a vast open-air museum, and the second largest ancient religious site in the world, after the Angkor Wat Temple of Cambodia.
It is believed to be the second most visited historical site in Egypt with only the Giza Pyramids receiving more visits.
The attack comes a week after two police officers were shot dead by gunmen on a road leading to the Great Pyramids of Giza, just west of capital Cairo.