Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

UNFPA to Produce Report on Ethiopian Population

By Andualem Sisay The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is set to launch Ethiopia’s population report focusing on the state and trend of Ethiopian population.

According to the UNFPA Deputy Representative, Ibrahim Sambuli, the reason behind is to showcase the rest of the world Ethiopia’s experiences in health extension program, women initiative and the like. “We are given green light from Ethiopian government to prepare a separate report that assesses Ethiopia’s population status,” he said this morning (July 26, 2011) briefing journalists gathered in Adama town, a hundred kilometers from the capital, for a workshop that deals with population issues.

For full article:

http://www.newbusinessethiopia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=558:unfpa-to-produce-report-on-ethiopian-population-&catid=44:poverty-reduction&Itemid=55