National Population Council approves study on population projections

SANA'A, Aug. 30
(Saba) - The National Population Council approved on Monday during the meeting
chaired
by Premier Ali Mujawar the outcomes of the study on the population projections for
2005-2025 in accordance with the different alternatives of fertility and mortality.
The council stressed the importance of the projections that will help clarify the
directions affecting demographic changes and indicators relating to the population
and
its structure, distribution characteristics with the aim to identify needs and face
economic and social challenges.
It ordered to circulate the outcomes at the concerned authorities to learn from
them and enable researchers to know about them.
Also, the council urged the secretariat general to implement the second stage of
the projections at district level within the steps to complete the process at
various levels,
and the concerned ministries to provide periodical reports to the secretariat
general on the implementation level taking into consideration operational
requirements for coordination
commissions in the governorates.
The meeting approved the request of the secretariat general calling for the Higher
Education and Scientific Research Ministry and universities to finalize measures
for presenting
population issues in curricula to reinforce the culture of these issues.
Furthermore, the council asked the secretariat general to speed the review of the
national population policy and its goals in the light of local, regional and
international
changes as well as reformulating the goals in a balanced way to apply them easily.
The proposal of the secretariat general calling for adding the Local Administration
Ministry as a member in the council was accepted and the report on the activities
during
the last period reviewed.
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