Family planning: A missing priority in Pakistan's health sector?

摘要

According to Alex Ezeh and colleagues, "Pakistan's failure to promote family planning in the 1970s and 1980s" has already had, and will lead to, great repercussions: a population that is anticipated to be "41% larger than Bangladesh's" by 2O5O.1 Currently, Pakistan's population is estimated to be more than 180 million, increasing at a rate of 1-9% per year. It is projected to be between 266 million and 342 million by 2050 (figure), largely to be determined by the uptake of family planning and consequent fertility decline.