There is a possibility that Egypt’s population may exceed 130 million by 2030, which will pose significant challenges to the state’s sustainable development goals, according to a statement by Planning Minister Hala El Said yesterday. “The issue of population growth is one of the most important challenges that hinder development efforts, and is placing increasing pressure on economic resources,” the statement noted. “The sustainable development plan has been keen to include the population dimension in all areas of development and stressed the need to activate programs to control population growth.” The plan for the current fiscal year 2019/2020 includes programs aimed at improving family planning and reproductive health services, such as the expansion of the availability of family planning and reproductive health services particularly for slums and rural areas, as well as developing the training curriculum for doctors and nurses. In 2018, the Ministry of Social Solidarity launched a two-year project called ”2 Kefaya (Two [children] is enough) in order to get curb the number of children in Egypt. It seeks to provide free birth control to families and develop family clinics which will appoint 3500,000 home visits in Egypt’s…
