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Cambodia Expressed Concern about Child Birth Rate for 40,000 Per Year
Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:42 DAP NEWS / VIBOL
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, AUGUST 19, 2010-Cambodian scholars and researcher on Thursday expressed their concern about the child birth rate in human resources when the neighboring countries stand about one million child birth rate per year like in Vietnam and Thailand but Cambodia has birth spacing policy.
According to the research, our country gets the 40,000 child birth rate per year after the health ministry set up the policy of birth spacing in the family in purpose of reducing poverty and help the mother to live with healthy and firm, Klot Thida, head of royal academy of Cambodia said in a seminar about using chemicals.
Sometimes, we could not compete with neighboring countries in terms of human resources because we have small number of population. And sometimes, the diseases also caused the baby die. Using chemicals in food and other materials including in milk is one of concern for growing child and those who are human resources from the country, she said.
In Cambodia, birth spacing is widely spread for Cambodian families to reduce number of children and the government also helps people to meet with millennium development goals.
For Cambodia, the total population rose to 13.4 million in 2008 and on July 11th, 2010, it will have 14.3 million with population growth rate about 1.55 percent in each year; Cambodia families have 3-4 children in average. So, in 2025, Cambodian population could increase to 17.5 million.
The report added that the population in the whole world is about 6,855 million and will rise to 7, 000 million at the end of 2011. In every second, 4-5 babies in average are born on the planet and a woman could be able to deliver 2-3 babies in average. The women living in developed countries have about one or two children and the women living in developing countries have 4-5. The number of babies was born is estimated at 130 million for each
year.
According to statistics, about 50 million people die of other factors including half million of women dying related to pregnancy and delivering babies each year. Accordance with data, the population in the world every year will increase by about 80 million, which are the challenging matters for the future, he noted.
Press Release of Office of the Council of Ministers Press and Quick Reaction Unit
Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:35 DAP NEWS
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