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2019-07-04 Africa North
'60 million more Egyptians by 2050': UN report
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Hobbies. These people need hobbies. Besides the one they obviously have now
Posted by Cheaderhead 2019-07-04 08:10||   2019-07-04 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The solution is obvious. Just classify them as White Western European Supremacists, then watch their fertility rate drop into the negatives.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-04 08:37||   2019-07-04 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Lots of wanking over population numbers and growth rates, but no mention of trends in GDP, health or anything pertaining to how well people living.
But I have total faith in UN reports.

A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
-- June 30, 1989
Posted by SteveS 2019-07-04 10:26||   2019-07-04 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 But will they be brown or black?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-04 13:09||   2019-07-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#5 From the article:

Last year, Egypt adopted the Itneen Kefaya (Two is Enough) birth-control programme, with the two-year campaign seeking to target 1.2 million women in 10 governorates to raise their awareness of contraception methods.

And, from the CIA World Factbook:

Total fertility rate:
3.41 children born/woman (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 45

Contraceptive prevalence rate:
58.5% (2014)


And from the Factbook’s Demographic Profile section:

Although the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) fell from roughly 5.5 children per woman in 1980 to just over 3 in the late 1990s, largely as a result of state-sponsored family planning programs, the population growth rate dropped more modestly because of decreased mortality rates and longer life expectancies. During the last decade, Egypt’s TFR decline stalled for several years and then reversed, reaching 3.6 in 2011, and has plateaued the last few years. Contraceptive use has held steady at about 60%, while preferences for larger families and early marriage may have strengthened in the wake of the recent 2011 revolution. The large cohort of women of or nearing childbearing age will sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future (an effect called population momentum).

Nevertheless, post-MUBARAK governments have not made curbing population growth a priority. To increase contraceptive use and to prevent further overpopulation will require greater government commitment and substantial social change, including encouraging smaller families and better educating and empowering women. Currently, literacy, educational attainment, and labor force participation rates are much lower for women than men. In addition, the prevalence of violence against women, the lack of female political representation, and the perpetuation of the nearly universal practice of female genital cutting continue to keep women from playing a more significant role in Egypt’s public sphere.


Hopefully, the last two paragraphs of this article indicate exactly that greater government commitment the UN report is calling for.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-04 13:27||   2019-07-04 13:27|| Front Page Top

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