Overpopulation

• Overpopulation: the number of people on Earth surpasses the planet's actual carrying capacity
• 1.39%: Philippine population's equivalent to the total world population
• 13: Philippine ranking among nations by population
• 106,512,374: estimated Philippine population by the year 2018
• More people are living in rural areas than in urban areas
• 55.6%: people living in the rural areas
• 44.4%: people living in urban areas
• 24.3 y/o: estimated median age in the Philippines
• Causes

  • Improved healthcare system
  • Poor Family Planning
  • Immigration
  • Teenage pregnancies on the rise
  • Lack of knowledge in the use of contraceptive devices
  • Access to pornography
• Effects

  • Poverty
  • Graft and corruption
  • Criminality
  • Family discord
  • Problems on food security
  • Pollution
  • Climate change
  • Economic crises
• Government Actions

  • RA 6365/Population Act
  • Responsible Parenthood and Natural Family Planning Program
• RA 6365: passed in 1971, includes family planning into a national development strategy
• What government program promotes natural family planning, birth spacing, and breastfeeding?

  Responsible Parenthood and Natural Family Planning