Measures to control rapid population increases

  • Family planning:- Adoption of family programmes to reduce the birth rates to an acceptable level.
  • Late marriages:- Encouragement of late marriages especially for women reduces their family rate,'
  • Small family incentives:- Provision of incentives to small families which discourages people from having big families
  • Prolonged education:- The prolonging of the educational period during which the girls are kept in the educational institutions for long reduces the fertility rate among the girls.
  • Economic disincentives:- The government can impose penalties and other economic disincentives on large families so as to discourage them.
  • Persuasion:- Individuals can be persuaded by the government to have small families through formal and informal means e.g. radio programmes, seminars, church meetings and teachings etc.
  • Legislation:- The government can force individuals to have small families through legal means or legislation.
  • international Emigration:- Artificial growth rate can be reduced by encouraging people to settle in other countries e.g. case of Rwanda during the 1950s to early 1990s.
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