Nineteen (19) achievement of Tanzanian population policy
Population policy policy is the document prepared by government to modify the way the population is changing either by promoting large families or immigration to increase its size or by encouraging the birth control to reduce it. The population policy can be implicit or explicit. Explicit population policy set measures of how to directly control population for example by setting the number of children each family should have. Implicit population policy in other hand control population and its variables indirectly. The achievements of both past implicit and explicit Tanzanian population policies include the following. Increased awareness of population issues Fertility, infant and child mortality has declined over time; while the average life expectancy at birth has been going up. Awareness of HIV and AIDS has reached over 95 percent among men and women above 15 years of age. Increased awareness of the links and interrelationships between population, resourc...