World Population Day

Today, July 11 marks “World Population Day”, a UNDP established event that seeks to inspire change and promote awareness of the dangerously expanding world population. By October of 2011, it is predicted that the global population will hit 7 billion, with the ballooning population remaining an extremely serious issue on the African continent. In an IPS article, author Thalif Deen explains:

“A new study titled "Africa's Demographic Multiplication", released last month and commissioned by the Washington-based Globalist Research Center, points out that Africa's population has more than tripled during the second half of the 20th century, growing from 230 million to 811 million. As a result, Africa has become more populous than Europe. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country at 158 million, is expected to grow to 730 million by century's end, making it larger than Europe's projected population of 675 million. Nigeria is currently the only African country with a population exceeding 100 million. But 10 other countries in the African continent are expected to join that club before the close of the century: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.”


The Segal Family Foundation remains committed to family planning and the issue of overpopulation in Sub-Saharan Africa.