The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized on Friday a 1.5 kilometer-marathon in the Egyptian coastal city of Matrouh within the framework of celebrations of the World Population Day.<\/p>\n
The event was meant to disseminate awareness among youths about population issues, especially bloating population and family planning.<\/p>\n
The event was organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Etijah – Youth and Development Consultancy Institute in Egypt.<\/p>\n
UNFPA Representative in Egypt Aleksandar Bodiroza participated in the marathon alongside UNFPA Youth Ambassador novelist Essam Youssef and Egyptian football freestyler Yousef Ayman.<\/p>\n
The event is held under the aegis of Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi and Matrouh Governor Magdi el Gharbali.<\/p>\n
After the marathon, El Mina Band and High Dam Band performed concerts within the framework of the Music for Development\u201d project.
\nOn Thursday, a workshop was held in Matrouh governorate. A play was performed to spread awareness about the fallout of overpopulation and early marriage.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bodiroza said he tasked a number of fine artists to paint five murals in five different governorates on reproductive heath and rights on the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).<\/p>\n
The murals – to be drawn in tandem with the Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Mohsen Foundation for Culture, Art and Development – will be a catalyst for adhering to family planning and putting an end to maternal mortality and harmful practices against women and girls.<\/p>\n
These activities also fall within the framework of the UNFPA Egypt\u2019s Art for Development initiative, whereby UNFPA employs unconventional methods such as art to advocate for health and population issues.<\/p>\n
Egypt is striving to curb swelling population within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n
Egypt’s cabinet expects the country’s population growth rate to almost halve in the five years leading up to 2052, when the population is projected to reach over 153 million.<\/p>\n
Population growth is forecast\u00a0to ease into 0.85% in 2047-2052 from 1.99% in 2017-2022, a drop of around 43%, the cabinet said in a statement on Friday marking World Population Day.<\/p>\n
The cabinet said that the birth rate in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, would drop by 2052 to 13.5 births per 1,000 people from 24.5 births last year.<\/p>\n
The government’s official statistics authority, CAPMAS, puts the current population count at about 99 million.<\/p>\n
In March, Egypt launched the National Population Strategy, a project funded by a 27-million-euro grant from the European Union to promote family planning.<\/p>\n
Late last year, the social solidarity ministry launched the “Two Is Enough” program, a major government family-planning campaign that aims to challenge traditions of large families in Egyptian rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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