JAKARTA: Indonesia’s population could exceed that of the United States by 2060 if the former’s population control programs remain ineffective, National Demography and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) chairman Sugiri Syarief said Thursday“We can outnumber Americans if we do not make adequate efforts to anticipate a ‘baby boom’ through birth control,” he said on the sidelines of a regional working meeting on demography and family planning in Mamuju, South Sulawesi
AKARTA: Indonesia’s population could exceed that of the United States by 2060 if the former’s population control programs remain ineffective, National Demography and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) chairman Sugiri Syarief said Thursday
“We can outnumber Americans if we do not make adequate efforts to anticipate a ‘baby boom’ through birth control,” he said on the sidelines of a regional working meeting on demography and family planning in Mamuju, South Sulawesi.
Indonesia’s population was 237.6 million in 2010, and its annual growth rate has averaged 1.49 percent over the past few years — surpassing the government’s predictions, according the Central Statistics Agency.
He said Indonesia, the fourth-largest country in the world by population, had a high population growth.
“It is very bad for us,” Sugiri said, as quoted by kompas.com.
Without adequate family planning efforts, Indonesia’s population will reach 475 million to 500 million people by 2060, or double the country’s current population number, he said. —JP
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