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    Gambia has a very youthful population structure due to high fertility rates, with women having an average of 7 live births. Cultural and religious factors have prevented contraceptive use and women's ability to control their family size. This has resulted in high population growth that is straining resources, with low life expectancy, rapid urban expansion, overcrowded schools, deforestation, and desertification. Solutions proposed include promoting contraception, vaccinations, health clinics, education on family planning, and protected forests.

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    Gambia: A Case Study On A Youthful Population Structure: Reasons

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    Gambia has a very youthful population structure due to high fertility rates, with women having an average of 7 live births. Cultural and religious factors have prevented contraceptive use and women's ability to control their family size. This has resulted in high population growth that is straining resources, with low life expectancy, rapid urban expansion, overcrowded schools, deforestation, and desertification. Solutions proposed include promoting contraception, vaccinations, health clinics, education on family planning, and protected forests.

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    Gambia: a Case Study on a Youthful Population Structure

    Reasons:
    • 95% of Gambians are women.
    • Women have a fertility rate of 7 live births per women.
    • Religion and culture have discouraged women’s rights and contraception.
    • Women cannot decide the amount of children that they have.
    • 7.3% of live births die before the age of 1 year old.
    • Children are needed for free labour as workhands.
    • The high infant mortality rate means that more children are needed to replace
    the dead.
    • As the IMR is going down, so more children are being conceived than are
    needed.

    Impacts: Solutions:
    • Male life expectancy is 33 years old. • Promotion and education of contraception, which are
    • Female life expectancy is 57 years old. WHO subsidised.
    • Towns are forced to expand rapidly. • Government sponsored vaccinations.
    • Too many children for the small amount of schools, • Health clinics which offer advice and encourage spacing
    so each only has a half day, and teachers are forced children.
    to work long hours. • Forest Management plan to educate about deforestation.
    • Deforestation and desertification. • Creation of protected parks to recover forest.

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