Young Populations

Young Populations

1. The Gambia

   • Why so many Young people
     • 95% are muslims and contraceptives in discouraged by teachers
     • The more children you have, the more help the family will get for agriculture
     • Youngest Population of any country in the world
     • Birth rate is 40 per 1000 people
     • Pilogamy- 13 children between 2 wives
     • 11 mothers die per 1000 born
     • 73 children die per 1000
   • Dependancy
     • Population Doubles every 28 years
     • (45 + 3)/52 * 100 = 92.3%
     • Wide base expands a lot by 2050
     • For every 100 people 92 people need looking after
   • Implications
     • No sanitation
     • Towns are expanding and goverments do not have money
     • £30 a month to feed 22 people
     • Trees Cut down to make firewood
     • Families struggle with Basic Housing
     • Can't afford electricity and limited learning resources
     • 3000 students in 26 classrooms
     • Trees cut down to make firewood. Predicted that all forests would go
   • Contraception
     • Use of Tv and Radio adverts
     • Social Marketing- Putting in health stores to increase accessability
     • Prices are being SUBSIDISED so they can afford it (UN pays Gambia some money
     • 4.2-2% in 2005
   • Education
     • 3 ouy of 4 women are illiterate
     • 1 in 6 women attended primary school
     • Families rely in children for income
     • The more children families have the harder it is to send them all to school
     • Attendance at school doubles
     • Basic education for 3000 students
     • Food is provided so parents send them
     • 10-14 year olds work
   • Managing Resources
     • Use firewood for cooking
     • Deforestation
     • 2/3 forests have gone
     • Music and dance helps people think about deforestation
     • Children will be given the forest to look after
     • Reversing damage already done
     • Some places are illegal to graze cattle to allow restoration
     • Authorities slowed rate of deforestation and increased afforestation- Financil help from the Germans
   • Health
     • Unmoved by 3 children dead
     • 1 in 10 children die before the age of 5
     • Canadian Governments refurbish centres
     • Children have vaccinations eg measles
     • Infant mortality down
     • TFR=7 (Mother would have 7 children
     • TFR=6 in 2000
     • Councilling to mothers
     • Tell mothers to space thier children for thier health
   • The Future
     • Religious people are now seeing the benefits of contraception
     • Men and women famaily plan
     • Population gone down to 3%
     • Gambias children remain the poorest
     • Men are in charge