TANZANIA; Lets Think

princebujonde · 2013-02-18T09:47:56+00:00

From The Citizen... Tanzania: Lets think Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:05 Every Sunday the World Bank in Tanzania in collaboration with The Citizen on Sunday wants to stimulate your thinking by sharing data from recent official surveys and ask you a couple of questions. This post is also published on the World Bank Africa Region's Chief Economist blog and can be found at Tanzania: Let's think together | End Poverty SMS your views on these issues to 0653 541 098, 0686 648 572 or to 0769 017 279. Can Tanzania afford 100 million citizens by 2035? Tanzania has experienced an exceptionally high population growth from 11 million in 1963 to over 45 million in 2012. Among the factors that have contributed to this increase one of the fastest in the world is the falling mortality rate. Life expectancy in Tanzania has increased over the past two decades from 50 to 58 years. In addition, Tanzanian women have continued to have many children (5.4 per woman in 2010), which is higher than Kenya and Rwanda (4.6) as well as other sub-Saharan countries with the exception of Uganda. Since 1991, this rate has only declined by 13 per cent in Tanzania against 26 and 31 per cent in Rwanda and Kenya, respectively. Several other factors have also contributed to the high population growth rate that Tanzania is experiencing: Infant mortality has halved over the last 25 years. Early marriage: the median age at first marriage in 2010 was 18.8 years in Tanzania compared to 20.0 in Kenya and 21.4 in Rwanda. Early motherhood: 44 per cent of Tanzanian women are either pregnant or are mothers by the age of 19. Insufficient education: Reaching secondary education considerably delays the age at first marriage and girls with a secondary education wed at about 23 years in Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda. In 2010, women who had no education had twice as many children as those who had attained secondary education. The average desired number of children for Tanzanian women remains high at 5.3 per woman. Timid family-planning programmes: Only 27 per cent of Tanzanian women were using contraceptives in 2010 compared with 39 per cent and 26 per cent in Kenya and Rwanda respectively in the same year. With the current fertility and mortality rates, Tanzanias population is projected to reach 100 million in 2035 and 200 million by the end of this century. These projections raise a number of questions: Will there be enough food to feed 100 million people in 2035? How can enough jobs be created for the growing youth population? Will there be enough resources to provide high-quality education, infrastructure and other basic services for the coming generation? Will economic development and urbanization be sufficient to reduce population growth over time? Should the Government promote family planning programmes like Ethiopia and Rwanda have done? How can more men be encouraged to participate in family planning programmes? Should targeted education programmes be implemented to encourage girls to remain in school? What should the role of development partners, communities, civil society and religious leaders be? Lets think..........

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