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Population May Hit 400 Million By 2050 – Minister
Population May Hit 400 Million By 2050 – Minister
According to Joseph Ekumankama, Minister of State for Health, without effective population policies to reduce the high fertility rate, Nigeria will be the fourth or fifth most populous country in the world by 2050, with a projected population of 400 million.
He stated that the demographic trend had implications for Nigeria’s economic development due to the reliance of the youth population.
“Without effective population policies to reduce the high fertility rate, Nigeria will be about the fourth or fifth most populous country in the world by 2050, with a projected population of around 400 million,” Ekumankama stated.
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“It will then mean that rapid population will put substantial pressure on the country’s capacity to provide quality social services such as foods, clinics, and adequate sanitation and other basic needs.”
The minister went on to say that meeting the commitment of achieving a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 27% by 2030 was a wonderful step toward ensuring universal access to reproductive health.
Meanwhile, only 12% of Nigerian women use modern contraception methods, while 19% of women have an unmet need for family planning.
This is according to the latest figure by the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning.
The percentage of women who want to stop or delay childbearing but are not currently using any method of contraception to prevent pregnancy is the unmet need for family planning.
Male and female condoms, intrauterine devices, injectables, implants, pills, and emergency contraception are all modern methods of family planning.
Speaking at the seventh Nigeria Family Planning Conference, with the theme ‘Journey to 2030: The Opportunities Ahead,’ Dr. Ejike Oji, Chairman of the AAFP and NFPC, said the mCPR was low despite efforts by the government and development partners.
He said, “The low utilisation of family planning services has contributed to Nigeria’s poor maternal and child health outcomes, an existing maternal mortality rate of 512/100,000 live births, a high total fertility rate of an average of six children per woman which contributes to the rapid population growth rate of 3.2 per cent, that impacts negatively on the country’s development and health situations.”
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