youthful population (niger)

Question 1

niger

Answer 1

• worlds youngest population
• half of population is 14 or younger
• FR highest in the world, 6.8 births per woman
• dependency ration is 109% - means more dependants than ppl in working age pop

Question 2

causes

Answer 2

religious benefits
- more than 80% pop Muslims. procreation encouraged, so men don’t use contraception.
- belief is that the more kids a man has, more prestige is in society
low uptake of contraception
- esp in rural areas, v few planning clinics
- contraceptive use reported at 11% in 2018
such low use = high pregnancies
early marriage
- 60% marriages involve children under age of 16
- means childbearing in adolescence is common, half of women have a kid before 20
agri famiies
- agri sector employs almost 85% of population
- most based on subsistence farming. children required

Question 3

issues

Answer 3

• too few teachers to provide adequate education, literacy rate only 35%
• inadequate healthcare, only 2 doctors per 100,000 people
• world’s highest mortality rate for kids under 5
• farms become much smaller as split between kids when dad dies, food production cant keep up w/ population growth. 38% of kids under 5 are underweight
• deforestation, niger has 55% decrease in tree cover since 2000 (forest cleared for new settlement)
  = 45% below poverty line, economy second poorest in world

Question 4

responses

Answer 4

• since 2002, contraceptives free, distribution outsourced and some radios promoting family planning launched
• still low prevalence
• govt knows problems come from population explosion, but few policies to deal with