Population-First a community

Population First is an NGO working on population and health issues within the framework of women's rights and social development. We believe that population is not an issue of numbers alone. Numbers are but a manifestation of poor social development and lack of access to health and contraceptive services. Across the country, fertility is highest where social development is low and gender inequality is high.

Population First is a communications and advocacy initiative for a balanced, planned and stable population. Reducing gender imbalances, investing for the current and future population and reaching the goal of family size of two children per couple are our key communications objectives.

In demographic terms, the population explosion is a numbers
equation, birth rate decline lagging behind a fall in death rate.
But in terms of historical action, the population explosion is the
unequal diffusion of the two technologies of death control and
birth control. One element, probably the most important, in this
inequality stems from broad societal attitudes towards human
reproduction. In the last analysis, it seems to be attitudes
among decision makers and elite members of a society as they
relate to the availability of choices, rather than attitudes
among the world’s contemporary millions, that still slow the
repairing of the mistakes