Population Policies and Reproductive Rights - Always in Conflict?

Abstract

Most of us know why there are great concerns about demographic growth. As we meet, there are about 5.5 billion human beings, halfway between five and six billion. We add over a quarter of a million people to the earth every, day, day after day. The population of young people coming into reproductive age will expand by 25 % in the next decade. Depending on what we do in the next ten years, the earth's population will continue to grow until it numbers between 6 billion and an almost unimaginable 19 billion by, the end of the next century. India will have a population of over 1 billion just after the turn of this century.