This document discusses population education, its objectives, importance and impact of population growth. Population education aims to develop understanding of demographic concepts and population trends/issues. It promotes small family norms and raises awareness about relationship between population size and quality of life. Rapid population growth can negatively impact a country's development by increasing poverty, unemployment and lowering standards of living. Family planning and increasing female literacy are important measures to control population.

4. CONTENT
Population education
Objectives
Needs of population education
Importance
Characteristics
Effects of population growth on national development
Measures to control
Role and responsibilities
Family planning

5. POPULATION:
 “It refers to the group of individual or group of
people in a specific area, region or country. This
group may be small ,moderate or large in numbers
This is called population.”

6. EDUCATION:
 “The word education is derived from latin word
Educere, Educare and Educatum which
means “to learn”, “to know” and “to lead out”.

8. POPULATION EDUCATION:
 According to UNESCO:
“Population education is an educational
programme which provides for a study of population situation
of the family, the community, nation and world, with the
purpose of developing in the students’ rational and responsible
attitudes and behavior towards that situation.”

9. OBJECTIVES OF POPULATION
EDUCATION :
 To develop the understanding of:
i. Relevant demographic concept and process.
ii. The rapid growth of population and it's causes.
iii. The influence of population trends on various aspects of
human life.
iv. The evil effects of population on environment.
v. The scientific and medic advancement resulting in the
imbalance between the death and birth rate.

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 To develop and appreciation of :
i. The small family norms as proper and desirable.
ii. The relationship between population size and the quality
of life .
iii. To develop awareness of the population of the population
policies and programs of the country.

12. NEED OF POPULATION EDUCATION:
i. Controlling population
ii. Ensuring better quality of life
iii. Optimum uses of natural resource's
iv. Better health
v. Solving food problem
vi. Well around system of education
vii. Increasing national wealth
viii. Value orientation

14. IMPORTANCE:
 Today's children's are tomorrow's citizens .
 They must know the population and it's consequences.
 Education an effective way to conscientize people of the
needs of accepting small family norms.
 Student play major role to spread this message.
 It provides information and creates awareness about the
harms over population.

15. CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATION
EDUCATION:
A new branch of the study in the field of education.
 Studies the impact the increase in population of different age
groups.
 Studies the impact of population on the economic development of
country.
 Help the students to investigate and explore the interaction
between population and environment.
 Enable the students to describe causes and consequence of
population.

16. POPULATION GROWTH:
•The term population growth refers to how the number of
individuals in a population increase with time.
•The growth is controlled by the rate at which new
individuals are added to the population , the birth rate and
the rate at which individuals leave the the population the
death rate.

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•When the birth rate is higher than the death rate,more
people are being born than are dying ,so that population
grows .This is called natural increase.
•When the death rate is higher than the birth rate it is called
the natural decrease.

18. POPULATION SITUATION IN PAKISTAN:
•According to the economic survey of pakistan
•2010- 11 the total population of pakistan is 177.1 million
against the 173.5 million in last year.
•Population growth rate is 2.1% and in the list of most
population countries ,pakistan is at the 6 number.

19. EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH ON
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
• Low per capital income
• Unemployment, under-employment and disguised - unemployment
• Low growth of agriculture sector
• Low saving and low investment
• High rate of inflation
• Pollution
• Back worinfrastructure structure
• Vicious circle of poverty
• Low living standard
• Increase in dependence ratio

20. MEASURES TO CONTROL POPULATION
GROWTH
•Control the birth rate
•Late marriages
•High literacy rate
•Women employment
•Family planning
•Increase in employment

22. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•To promote awareness about population problems
and the effects of rapid population growth on
development.
•To educate all young people on population matters,
sexual relationships, fertility regulation and family
planning so that they can make responsible decisions
once they become able to marry and have children.

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•In Islam, mosques are not just “places of prayers.”
Mosques are in modern terminology are community
centers.
•The communities' role is to act as a watchdog and
ensure that education serves people, industrial
organizations, and the planet.

24. FAMILY PLANNING:
•Family planning means planning by individuals or couples to
have only the children they want, when they want them.
•This is responsible parenthood.
• Family welfare includes not only planning of births ,but they
welfare of whole family by means of total family health care.
•The family welfare programme has high priority in Pakistan,
because its success depends upon the quality
of life of all citizen.

25. STEPS TOWARDS POPULATION PLANNING
AND WELFARE:
•Broadcasting programs on family planning
•Family welfare programs
•Medical termination of pregnancy
•Awareness and use of family planning
•Maternal and child health programme
•Method and source of family planning

26. ADD A BROADCASTING PROGRAMS ON FAMILY
PLANNING:
•Two children norm
•Spacing methods
•Use of contraceptives
•Raising of marriage age
•Terminal methods of family planning
•Women’s education

27. FAMILY WELFARE PROGRAMS:
•Family welfare services are offered through the
total health-care delivery system.
•Maternal and child health-care and expanded
programme of immunization are also a part of the
family welfare programme.

28. MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
PROGRAMS:
• The maternity and child health programmes (MCH) are directed towards
effective prenatal care.
• Ensuring safe and aseptic delivery
• Appropriate post-natal care
• Initiation and maintenance of breast-feeding
• Timely immunization against common infectious diseases
• Attention to growth and provision of basic medical care.

29. CONCLUSION:
• Population education helps to improve the well-being of their families
and communities.
• Family planning is one of the most effective life saving interventions
we have to reduce maternal and child morality.
• Increased use of family planning can significantly reduce abortion rates.
• It enables us to look into the future.
• It provides information and creates awareness about the harms of over
population .

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•High growth rate of population creates unfavorable effect
on the economic development in the developing countries
like Pakistan.
•Higrate of population growth in population means poverty,
literacy, low living standard ,absence of prosperity and
vicious circle of poverty.