Egyptian children

Video: Egypt pushes family planning

 

 
 Egypt moves to curb population explosion 
 

The Arab world’s most populous nation is reviving a birth-control programme to encourage parents to consider having fewer children.

Egypt’s population growth rate is two and a half times that of China, and about the same as of India.

Al Jazeera’s Amr El-Kahky reports on the government’s efforts to bring down the average family size from three children to two by 2017.