Parliament designs strategy to control population growth

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, has tabled before parliament, a proposal on how the government can control the increasing population growth rate in the country. According to Ntawukuriryayo, the current fertility rate of 5.5 implies that a Rwandan woman, on average, gives birth to five or six children, but if adequate measures to curb the growth rate are put in place, the rate can be reduced to about 2.3 by 2035.