In their article “Population and Health” (Time August 26, 2002:A9,)Jeffrey Kluger and Andrea Dorfman predicted that with the decreasing of it’s growth rate, the world population will level off at about 11 billion in the last half of this century. However, although economic development and family-planning have helped reduce birth rate, the slow down of population growth in the poorest parts of the world was because of wrong reasons: infectious diseases, especially AIDs. They concluded …showed first 75 words of 388 total…

…showed last 75 words of 388 total…effective. Women’s fertility rates in the poorest countries have already decreased by 50% since 1969 and will continue decreasing. Another way to control population growth is through education. “Educated mothers not only have a stepladder out of poverty, but they also choose to have fewer babies.” (Kluger and Dorfman). Therefore, it’s important to provide family planning, health care and education in the poorest part of the world in order to address population and health problems.