📎📎⚖️👍💤 Issue of law, law fields, Pakistan's family planning programs, a case of Fortunate Failure & Great Pakistan.

 

Based on recent reports from the Greek Education Ministry, Greece is closing 721 schools for the 2025-2026 academic year due to a significant lack of students. As the Greece has one of the lowest fertility rates in the European Union, with a rate of about 1.3 births per woman, which is well below the replacement level of 2.1.

Simultaneously, several other countries in world are also grappling with the world's lowest fertility rates, which are leading to rapidly aging societies.

In all these countries, a history of implementing population control programs may have contributed to their current demographic challenges. Conversely, many developed countries that are now facing population decline have reversed their stance. Their policies are now "pro-natalist," designed to encourage higher birth rates through financial incentives, extended parental leave, and subsidized childcare.

Pakistan's family planning programs, which began in the 1950s, have faced challenges over the years due to political instability, religious and social opposition, and a lack of sustained government commitment.

One could argue that, in a way, Pakistan has been fortunate in this. If these programs had been highly effective and widely adopted, Pakistan might now be facing the same low fertility rates and population decline that are causing major problems in countries like Greece, Japan, South Korea or other countries of the world. Instead, Pakistan continues to have a high, and young, population.

Pakistan's family planning programs, didn't work as planned, and it was "fortunate" because the outcome of that failure has, so far, shielded the country from a much more difficult set of problems.

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