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Why Is It Important To Much More Than 2 Children In Poor Countries

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Many people might have had heard of the millennium project and its goals. However most don’t know how close these goals are to being all achieve. One huge misconception people have on the world population is that it will continue to grow until it reaches a point where it will be too big and collapse. Another misconception people have is how poor countries have no change on becoming developed and will always be poor. However, this development gap is closing and as it does it decreases the child rate in the poor countries allowing the world population to balance out. The average child rate in the world is currently 2.2 children per women. This means that every family is having an average of two children. In countries that have more than 2 children …show more content…

This is significant because if the whole world is having an average of two then the human population would not exceed 10 billion. This is because the current population is about 7 billion. But there is 2 billion ages 0-15 and 2 more billion in 15-30. 30-45 has 1 billion, 45-60 has another 1 billion and the final 60+ has another 1 billion. As 15 years pass the top billion dies and 2 billion children are added at the bottom. The age group of 30-45 now has 2 billion in it. As another 15 years passes the same thing happens but this time the age group 45-60 now has 2 billion. As another 15 years pass all the age groups now have 2 billion people and the only way for them to get more is if the average child rate goes up.
So since developing countries are become developed the child survival rate is decreasing and the global child rate is moving closer to 2. Since they are becoming more developed, world hunger is getting closer to be eradicated and children are getting more of a chance to go to primary school. The next issue we have to focus on is making sure with the increase of developed countries, the environment doesn’t get destroyed by the amount of greenhouse gas

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