Bangladesh Population policy By: Oscar

Population Problems Size - Density: 7th most populus nation in the world and most densely populated country in the world 144 of 175 poorest countires Russia population - 141,927,297 Bangladesh population - 162,221,000 Density - 8.3/km2 Density - 1,099.3/km2 Area - 17,075,400 km2 Area - 143,998 km2 

Economic: Actual 2010 GDP - $1,465

Unemployment:

First Five Year Plan First Five Year Plan (1973-78). Lowering the birth rate was seen as the goal of population policy and contraceptive service delivery through a national family planning program was seen as the primary means of achieving that goal. promote the two-child norm and legitimize the use of modern methods of contraception Fertility rates did lower and it started to encourage people in Bangladesh to use modern birth control techniques. Failed because there was lack of effort and money from government. It was impossible to serve the whole nation with contraceptives

DPP Intoduced 1998 Dr. Halida Draft population policy

Dr. Halida Hanoom Akhter She develped the population policy,won 2006 United Nations Population Award. The Award goes each year to individuals and institutions for their outstanding work in population and in improving the health and welfare of individuals Member-Secretary of the Drafting Committee as she contributed a lot on a program called Population and Sustainable Development.

DPP Targets Sustainable population size 2010 2025 2050 2010 2025 2050 The Policy aimed for a sustainable population size for Bangladesh to maintain economic growth required for the continuing development of the country.

Control birth rate A major target of the policy was to address the problems originating from population growth in Bangladesh, more specifically, control of birth rate

Reduction of high mortality and the reduction of high mortality

Health quality and family welfare Ensure that good quality health and family welfare services are available to people at all levels.

Family planning – strategies Ensure that family planning and essential health services are easily available for the poor living in both the rural and urban communities. 􀂃 Design and make available effective interventions and implementations strategy to strengthen the family planning and reproductive health services. The strategy of increasing age at marriage Improvising

Safe delivery & care facilities Ensure safe and clean delivery (Child Birth) care and facilities. Apollo Hospital, very expensive The care facilities often look like the ones on the top less than ten percent of all births are attended by trained personnel 

Policy Issues Strategies not tested Preconditions for the implementation of strategies were not explicitly pre-tested, therefore uncertainty remained with those strategies.

Gender Inequality Many women are considered inferior, so that needs to be treated before the policy can work.

To much money spent Approximately 50% of the project budget ($16 million ) was spent on making research and acquiring oral contraceptives from Canada.

Policy Evaluation These achievements have created a positive change in terms of the demand for Family Planning (FP) services. Women are now more open and articulate regarding contraception and are more active seeking family planning services. contraceptive prevalence rate from 35% to 49% and to the marked decline in the total fertility rates from 4.3 to 3.3. This has been achieved mainly through the supply of oral contraceptives. This has been a less severe policy than the one in china for example, so people are happier to go along with it. The rapidity of fertility decline has earned Bangladesh a ‘demographic bonus’, and as a result Bangladesh today can claim one of the highest growth rates in per capita income level among the low-income countries of the world Three main factors are having a negative influence on the long-term sustainability of the results achieved: high discontinuation rates and/or method switching, poor terms of employment for government health workers, and the limited capacity of the Government of Bangladesh to increase the level of resources needed to sustain the current momentum. Traditional family planning methods are currently used by 7.7% of Bangladeshi women