More people share the planet today than have ever lived.
The United Nations Conference on Population and Development took place on 6-13 October 1994 in Cairo and welcomed delegates from 182 nations. An average Kenyan woman will have 8 children, four times the number in the developed world. A closer inspection casts serious doubts over this simplification, which has become dogma in developed countries. Far more women know at least some forms of contraception than want to use them. In fact, the World Fertility Survey revealed that in 7 out of 9 African countries covered, the women's ideal family size was even bigger than than their actual size.