The TFR has decreased slightly from 6.2 to 5.8 births per woman over her reproductive years. Population growth has increased from 2.7 to 3.0 percent per year because mortality has fallen much more rapidly than fertility. The government has a weak family planning program that provides limited contraceptive services in a few areas. Abortion is illegal and its status is unlikely to change. Country X is geographically small and densely populated.
Subsistence agriculture is the main economic activity, as it has been for years.
Economic development has been very slow. Most of the population, especially women, are illiterate. You have been asked to help develop a national program to reduce population growth in this country. Owing to a recent discovery of oil reserves on government land, you have been assured that funding will not be a major problem. The government would like to see growth rate reduced to ZPG by 2030.