CAUSES OF HIGH POPULATION GROWTH RATES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The rapid population growth rates in developing countries may be as a result the following factors:

Early marriages among the youth. Many people marry and or produce clearly in life, say before the age of 21 years. This results in rapid population growth in developing countries.
Reduced civil wars and natural calamities. This results in rapid population in developing countries as the relative calm forces people to procreate children.
Cultural or traditional tendencies that encourage large families. In some cult children are regarded as sources of pleasure and pride to parents. Pan therefore; produce very many children in order to fulfill these traditional mores.
High polygamy rate in society especially among Moslems. This results in population growth in developing countries among the polygamous communities.

High poverty rate among the population. Many people produce children in or: to have old age social security later in life whereby children provide for the needs of their parents in old age.
High level of prostitution. Many people have loose sex with several parties resulting in production of any, sometimes unwanted, children hence fast growth of population.
Low level of literacy and inferiority complex of some women. Some woman believe that they are valuable only for their reproductive functions and that they can best retain their spouses by producing many children in polygamous familial for example, wives compete amongst themselves as to who would out-do the other in producing many children. This results in fast growth of the population.
Limited family planning programmes in the rural areas. Many people are ignore of family planning methods; both their availability and benefits. Those that aware of their existence and benefits cannot afford to use them. This has result in limited use of contraceptives hence high birth rate and high population grow: rate.

Decline in death rates due to improved health care. Improved medical care through effective public health programmes at all levels such as establishment medical facilities, vaccination and health awareness has reduced death rate-resulting in fast rate of population.
High rate of immigration to developing countries due to insecurities in other countries. Due to political instabilities and limited economic opportunities.
Some countries, many people emigrate to other countries leading to rapid population increase in the recipient countries.
High rates of pregnancies among the unmarried due to rape and fornication. Due to the high level of adventurism among the unmarried, there is fornication suiting high rates of pregnancies hence high population growth rates.
High infant mortality rates. Due to high infant mortality rates, many people produce very many children as security against child mortality so that as others die. Others remain. Sometimes all the children survive mortality resulting in high population growth rates.

Low cost of raising children. The cost of raising children in some countries is low due to availability of food cheaply and state provision of merit goods like education and health at heavily subsidized rates. Since child upbringing is not very burdensome to parents, they do not see need to restrain their fertility.