Vietnam to Spend 50bn Dong Reducing Population Growth in 2005
Posted on: Saturday, 25 December 2004, 03:01 CST
Text of report in English by Vietnamese news agency VNA web site
Hanoi, 25 December: The National Committee for Population, Family and Children will pour 50bn dong into population growth control programmes in 2005 in the hope of reducing the birth rate that has risen slightly in recent years.
The slight rise in population growth rates over the years was attributed to the higher-than-expected increase in the number of women entering the age bracket when they are fertile and the poor management of population issues at various levels. Nguyen Thien Truong, Vice Director of the Vietnam Committee for Population, Family and Children said the Committee has since September this year taken bold measures to curb population growth, focusing on expanding family planning service provision to people in 38 densely populated provinces and cities. Localities with high birth rates, and families with more than two children will be also the target of family planning activities in 2005.
Additionally, the Committee will renew and speed up campaigns to encourage people to apply family planning methods, the population official noted. Regarding this issue, Resident Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ian Howie told the Vietnam News Agency that his organization would assist Vietnam's population and family planning programmes in remote and rural areas as well as help the country in resolving issues relating to reproductive health care and uncontrolled migration.
Vietnam's population is currently estimated at 82 million people. It is estimated that an additional one million babies will be born and over 500,000 women will join the reproductive age group a year. In the first six months of this year, 514,391 babies were born nationwide and the number of families with three children rose by 1,989, representing an increase of more than 3 per cent from 2003. The population growth rate surged to 1.47 per cent in 2003 from 1.32 per cent in 2002. The increase was equivalent to the country's achievements of reducing the birth rate over the previous four years. Vietnam's population strategy for 2001-10 aims to result in an average two children per couple nationwide by 2005.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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