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Restoring Balance
Jane O’Sullivan
Sustainable Population Australia
www.population.org.au
“Sustainability starts with a stable population”
Importance of reproductive health
and family planning:

For women’s rights and empowerment

For maternal and infant health

For addressing population growth
Family planning* is effective in reducing
family size and population growth.
8
Thailand
6
4
2
Births per Woman
Births per Woman
*any combination of non-coercive measures to reduce barriers to women and couples
exercising choice in timing and number of children, and to inform that choice.
Iran
6
4
2
6
4
2
Indonesia
6
4
2
0
Tunisia
6
4
2
Births per Woman
0
Births per Woman
Bangladesh
0
Births per Woman
Births per Woman
0
8
China
6
4
2
0
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
One Child Policy
0
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Year
Year
Without focus on population as a problem,
support for FP and SRHR withered.
Distribution of funding for ‘population assistance’
Basic Research
HIV/AIDS
Basic Reproductive
Health Services
Family Planning
Services
Source: S.W. Sinding 2009. Population Poverty and Economic Development.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2009 364, 3023-3030.
Annual Addition to Global Population
(millions)
As a direct result, fertility reduction
slowed and population
reversed.
Annual Increase to increment
Global Population
100
80
60
40
Actual Increment (UN estimate)
Anticipated in UN's 2000 Projection
20
0
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
Year
The UN Medium Projection is not being met,
nor can Millennium Development Goals be met in LDCs.
Family planning underpins development
Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger
Change in people with insufficient food, 1990 - 2002
as percent of 2002 population
-4
-2
0
2
4
6
Sub-Saharan Africa
Western Asia
Southern Asia
Northern Africa
Latin America & Caribbean
South East Asia
Hunger Reduction
Hunger Increase
Fertility
East Asia
1
2
3
4
5
Total Fertility Rate (births per woman)
6
Family planning underpins development
Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger
Change in people with insufficient food, 1990 - 2002
as percent of 2002 population
-4
-2
0
2
4
6
Sub-Saharan Africa
Western Asia
Southern Asia
Northern Africa
Latin America & Caribbean
South East Asia
Hunger Reduction
Hunger Increase
Fertility
East Asia
1
2
3
4
5
Total Fertility Rate (births per woman)
6
Investment in Family Planning has been more effective in reducing
hunger than investment in Agriculture. Both are needed – in balance.
Family planning underpins development
Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger
Change in people with insufficient food, 1990 - 2002
as percent of 2002 population
-4
-2
0
2
4
6
The funding pie
- Balanced?
International Development Funding
Sub-Saharan Africa
Western Asia
Southern Asia
Northern Africa
Agriculture
40%
Latin America & Caribbean
South East Asia
Other
Hunger Reduction
Hunger Increase
Fertility
East Asia
1
2
3
4
5
Total Fertility Rate (births per woman)
6
Family Planning
0.4%
Investment in Family Planning has been much more effective in reducing
hunger than investment in Agriculture. Both are needed – in balance.
Population growth is a
climate change issue.

Reducing population growth adds value to everything
else we do – in adaptation and mitigation.
Population growth is a
climate change issue.

Reducing population growth adds value to everything
else we do – in adaptation and mitigation.
Omission is a barrier.



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The climate response is a game-changer for the
development agenda.
Issues omitted will be marginalised.
Omission of population from the MDGs has seen a
resurgence of growth, undermining all MDGs.
Let’s not make the same mistake again.