Poverty & Population BU TOIT - Population & Poverty Discussion Global population What is Poverty? Rich countries Ethiopia needs is 8 billion & Lack of education, have an $70 per person VS. marked by great social exclusion & obligation to the $14 they diversity of living discrimination, provide support receive conditions & hunger, to poor ($5b vs. $1b) quality of life malnutrition countriesFigure 2: The Poverty Trap The Poverty Trap Sachs suggests The Poverty Trap exists due to various Nogave circumstances people are unable to break the cycle of Impowerband Bomanic Hointhold poverty and get that first step ont the ladder of development. JERO Tas Popinion Growth and (Sachs, 2015) Running Global Population at Glance out of money Scarce & goods O money & goods 7 to 8 Billion took 12 years 8 to 9 Billion projected to take 14.5 years 70% of recent billion increase was in low- income & lower-middle-income countries - the next billion will see this increase to 90% Barely surviving Sachs believes that while the growth is for now slowing, we should embrace it & avoid the desire for growth due to the pressure it puts on the planet & resourcesUN Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015 Outcomes 5 Share of poor people reduced by 50 per cent Maternal mortality fell by ERADICATE from 1990-2015 45 per cent since 1990 EXTREME POVERTY IMPROVE MATERNAL AND HUNGER HEALTH 2 6 90 per cent of children Fewer people infected in primary school by HIV/AIDS and COMBAT HIV / AIDS, malaria each year ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL MALARIA AND OTHER PRIMARY EDUCATION DISEASES 3 Equal number of girls and 2.3 billion people boys started school gained access to clean PROMOTE GENDER ENSURE drinking water EQUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EMPOWER WOMEN SUSTAINABILITY 17,000 fewer children died Debt service declined; each day than in 1990 foreign aid increased A GLOBAL REDUCE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILD MORTALITY DEVELOPMENTProportion of married or in-union women aged 15-49 years who make their own decisions regarding sexual relations, personal health care and contraceptive use, by level of education, countries with available data, 2007-2018 Global population size and annual growth rate: estimates, Can say no to sex 1950- 2020, and projections with prediction intervals, 2020-2100 3.0 - 95% prediction intervals - 14 Congo, Democratic He 2.5 12 2.0 Growth rate 10 1.5 8 Number of persons (billions) Growth rate (per cent) Make own health care decisions 1.0 0.5 Number of persons 0.0 2 -0.5 0 Congo, Democratic. 1950 1970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090 Year Make own decisions about contraception Togo Gabon Source: United Nations (2019). Armenia Note: Prediction intervals (shaded area around a projected trend) were derived No education Mozambique Primary from a probabilistic assessment of projection uncertainty. For a given year, the Albania Secondary Higher future trend is expected to lie within the predicted range with a probability of 20 40 80 100 95 per cent. Percentage of women aged 15-49 years Source: United Nations (2020)