WASHINGTON: The population crisis committee, a private organization advocating family planning, has said in a report that family planning services were “poor” in India, Bangladesh, Soviet Union, Egypt, Kenya and Guatemala.
Family size in these countries, it said, averaged 4.3 children per women and contraceptive use rates ranged from 15 per cent to 42 per cent of couples.
Sri Lanka was included in the category of countries with “good” family planning records, with between 61 percent and 75 percent of couples using contraceptives and with an average of 2.6 children per woman.
World population now 5.3 billion, could be stabilized at 9.3 billion by the end of the next century if governments and international organizations increased annual expenditure on family planning program from the current 3,2billion dollars to 10.5 billion dollars.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 9, 1990
