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INTRODUCTION

TO
SOCIOLOGY
Lecture 40

POPULATION
POLICY

A policy is a
formalized set of
procedures to
guide behavior.

Population Policy:
A strategy for
achieving a
particular pattern of
population change.

Future oriented
people need
population policy.

* Assessing the
future population
trend.
* Establishing a

Population Change
PAST

FUTURE

Interventions

Expected
Demographic
Trend

Expected
Socioeconomic
Consequences

Causes

Desired
Demographic
Result

Desired
Socioeconomic
Consequences

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Present
population scenario
Plunging death rate.
Birth rate lagging
behind.
Population explosion.

Need population
stabilization:

Looking for
replacement level.
Need TFR = 2.1
Present TFR = 4.1

Even if we reach
replacement level,
population growth
will continue.

Population
Momentum

Tendency of population
size to increase for some
time even after TFR = 2.
May continue for 3
decades.

TFR is falling
Development.
Motives of people.
Reaching the services.
Population policy.

Vision of
population policy
Population
stabilization by 2020.

Goals:
Attain balance between
resources and population
within ICPD paradigm.
Promote F. P. as entitlement
and as voluntary choice.
Reduce population momentum.

Objectives Short Term:


By 2004
Reduce PGR to 1.9 %
Reduce TFR to 4 births

Objectives Long term:


Universal access to FP
methods by 2010.

By 2020
Reduce PGR to 1.3 %.
Reduce TFR to 2.1 births.

Strategies:
Advocacy campaigns.
Increase ownership.
Reduce unmet need for FP.
Build partnerships.
Harness male support.
Ensure population education.

INTRODUCTION
TO
SOCIOLOGY
Lecture 40

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