TURKEY / LDC UNFPA POPULATION DYNAMICS

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) presented a blueprint Tuesday on what poor countries can do to enrich their bursting populations as human capital, that could free them from poverty.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:45
• Production Date: 10 May 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POPULATION DYNAMICS
• Geographic Subject: TURKEY
• MAMS Id: U110510d

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STORY: TURKEY / LDC UNFPA POPULATION DYNAMICS
TRT: 2.45
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 10 MAY 2011, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Conference Venue
2. Cutaway, reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“This is probably the last conference we will hold before our world reaches its significant milestone that is the birth of the 7 billionth baby later this year. The population division of the United Nations predicts that that baby will be born the 31st of October 2011.”
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The report says that just as parents do their best to provide for their children governments also need to invest in people so that they can reach their full potential. By examining populations trends countries can target investments to meet the needs of current and future generations. Investments in infrastructure and employment will yield high returns if they’re matched by investments in people’s education, skills development and health. This is especially important for young people and for most of these countries in the least developed part of the world, most of their population are young people”
6. Cutaway, photographer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“Let me put a figure to this - 215 million woman worldwide require family planning services and they’re not getting it. Most of these 215 million women are in the least developed countries. As a result, the leading cause of death amongst adolescent girls is of causes of maternal death.”
8. Cutaway, journalists
SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The report points out that the average annual rate of over population growth in the LDCs (Least Developed Countries) is higher than anywhere else in the world. As a consequence, the urban population in LDCs will rise by around 116 million over the next decade while the rural population will increase 88 million. By 2050 the number of city dwellers in the LDCs will approach 1 billion.”
9. Wide shot, Osotimehin leaves microphone behind

Storyline

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) presented a blueprint Tuesday on what poor countries can do to enrich their bursting populations as human capital, that could free them from poverty.

Launching a report during the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin said the world will welcome its 7 billionth baby in 2011, with most of the population growth occurring in poor countries.

“This is probably the last conference we will hold before our world reaches its significant milestone that is the birth of the 7 billionth baby later this year,” he said adding that the UN population Division predicted that that baby would be born the 31 of October 2011.

He said that 855 million people were already living in the world’s least developed countries and the population of those countries is expected to nearly double and increase to 1.67 billion between now and 2050.

The result he said, would be a large and growing youth population, adding that
“just as parents did their best to provide for their children governments also need to invest in people so that they can reach their full potential.”

Limited access to reproductive health and a high unmet need for family planning undermined the empowerment of women and contributed to comparatively high levels of fertility.

The report found that while the largest share of the LDCs population continued to live in the rural areas, a rapidly increasing proportion of their population were presently living in urban centres.

Osotimehin warned that as a consequence, the urban population in LDCs will rise by around 116 million over the next decade, while the rural population will increase to 88 million. By 2050 he said, the number of city dwellers in the LDCs will approach 1 billion.