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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Edicts on Family Planning Introduction بسمه تعالى In His Name, the Most High The uncontrolled growth of population this century has posed a huge dilemma and has brought with it irreversible damages to all aspects of life - including the environment that people live in and the health and welfare of the family.

Keeping in mind that if the economic, societal and cultural factors do not expand to keep in line with the growth of population, then this population growth will definitely have a negative impact on the well being of the entire society.

Where as 150 years ago, the population of the world was a mere 500,000,000 people, at the present time, there are currently over 6,000,000,000,000 people inhabiting the planet Earth and this number is on the increase as can be seen by the current growth of population of the world. We must also keep in mind that 90% of this increase has taken place within the non-Industrialized countries of the world.

Iran is also one of those countries in the category of those whose population growth has led to a change within the society. Due to improvement of the state of health and medicine at the present time in comparison to the past, the number of deaths and mortalities especially the death and mortality rate amongst children has dropped - however the number of births within the country has also gone up.

In the census of 1345 (1966), the population of Iran was close to 26,000,000, however during the census of 1365 (1986) – meaning during the span of twenty years - this number had almost doubled and the population reached close to 50,000,000. Keeping this increase in mind, it can be stated that by the year 1400 (2021), the population of Iran may well be 100,000,000.

In addition, according to the statistics of the median age of the population taken from the various indicators of the growth and planning of families within the Islamic Republic of Iran that were gathered in the month of Tir, 1376 (1997), 36.7% of the population of Iran were under the age of 15. It is clear that the securing of food resources, work, residence, health, ways to spend free time, education, etc...

for a population that is on the increase is one of the most essential issues in the path of expanding the economic situation and in maintaining the society.