and you know why??? churches dont allow them to use contraceptives, who is to blame now here???
balik na pod ta ani sa religion.... Hadjiiii where are you, heeeeeelp!!!!!
Believe it or not--the church's teachings dont really play a key role--its more on economics than on religious. Afterall, the PHilippines is not an industrialized/westernized country. Read the comment I posted above--hope that helps.
I mean, I'd like to try to solve this by making specific inferences; you say that the Catholic Church's teachings is the causatory agent; however, have you seen and compared the birth rates of the Philippines to neighbouring countries?
***note--this information comes from the 2007 CIA World Factbook***
Bangladesh:Population:
150,448,339 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 33.1% (male 25,639,640/female 24,174,937)
15-64 years: 63.4% (male 48,659,087/female 46,712,687)
65 years and over: 3.5% (male 2,818,638/female 2,443,350) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 22.5 years
male: 22.5 years
female: 22.5 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.056% (2007 est.)
CambodiaPopulation:
13,995,904
note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 34% (male 2,405,561/female 2,355,404)
15-64 years: 62.4% (male 4,234,701/female 4,500,994)
65 years and over: 3.6% (male 189,090/female 310,154) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.3 years
male: 20.6 years
female: 22.1 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.729% (2007 est.)
LaosPopulation:
6,521,998 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 41.2% (male 1,349,352/female 1,338,252)
15-64 years: 55.7% (male 1,795,029/female 1,835,168)
65 years and over: 3.1% (male 90,188/female 114,009) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 19 years
male: 18.7 years
female: 19.3 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.37% (2007 est.)
IndiaPopulation:
1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 31.8% (male 188,208,196/female 171,356,024)
15-64 years: 63.1% (male 366,977,821/female 346,034,565)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 27,258,259/female 30,031,289) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 24.8 years
male: 24.5 years
female: 25.2 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.606% (2007 est.)
IndonesiaPopulation:
234,693,997 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 28.7% (male 34,309,176/female 33,148,341)
15-64 years: 65.6% (male 77,132,708/female 76,731,481)
65 years and over: 5.7% (male 5,956,471/female 7,415,820) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 26.9 years
male: 26.4 years
female: 27.4 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.213% (2007 est.)
East Timor (Timor-Leste)Population:
1,084,971
note: other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 35.7% (male 196,825/female 190,454)
15-64 years: 61.1% (male 337,816/female 325,094)
65 years and over: 3.2% (male 16,823/female 17,959) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.1 years
male: 21.2 years
female: 21.1 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.059% (2007 est.)
PakistanPopulation:
164,741,924 (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 36.9% (male 31,264,576/female 29,507,174)
15-64 years: 58.8% (male 49,592,033/female 47,327,161)
65 years and over: 4.3% (male 3,342,650/female 3,708,330) (2007 est.)
Median age:
total: 20.9 years
male: 20.7 years
female: 21 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.828% (2007 est.)
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Note that most of these countries have a populatory growth rate of over 1.5%, and these countries are muslim countries, buddhist, Hindu etc--which correlates to the Malthusian concept and strengthens that the Church's teachings has nothing to do with population growth in a thirld world/ developing country--instead it is pure and simple economics that makes these influences. Population growth rate is directly linked to the human development index of a country. As a country is industrializing--its population will be high to fuel industrialization--and is a country summits industrialization and becomes a 'modern' state--so too will its population as there will be no need to maintain such a high population. (As mentioned in prior posts)
If you read history, particularly in Europe--you will see this trend. During the late 19th century during the Age of European Imperialism--and during the age of European Industrialization--countries such as Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain etc created empires to fuel its industries at home--and the population in these countries swelled to the millions--thereby providing man power to build steel plants, trains, mills, ships, homes etc. As Europe (western europe to be exact) finished its industrialization process--and the standard of livign increased--leading to decreased child mortality rates---there no longer was a need to have so many xxxx children--as the economy wasn't so dependent on agrarian market--whereas it was now focused on inter-regional/ intercontinental trade, business and bankings e tc.
We see this now in economics and politics in South East Asia and Asia-Pacific--as countries in our region are industrializing---so too is the population to fuel and aid in the process---and so long as the country remains highly dependent on agrarian market--then the population growth rate will continue to at the stagnant 1.5%. WHEN the Philippines changes and becomes a service-focused market economy---then we will see a negative effect on our population growth--and it will decrease.
We see this in S. Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia. (All of which had HIGH populatory growth rates when they were industrializing/developing)
This scattergraph shows that a country with a high infant mortality (many children dieing young) will tend to have a higher birth rate.
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