... birth control and making people aware was a big factor. There was more openness towards using contraceptives, which lowered fertility rates. Delayed marriage was a consequence of the policy and this allowed more women in the workforce, this reduced the desired family size as women were focusing more on their careers and as a consequence to this, it strengthened the position of women in society, expressing women being of value to the Mauritius economy. It is clear that a form of managing population growth is by social development, e.g. promoting female education, family planning campaigns which reduced family sizes, therefore lowering fertility rates, and legal reform, e.g. establishing the rights of women. Mauritius has seen to be successful in their policy they are coping with their population growth, e.g. fertility rate declined from 6.2 to 3.2 children per women in a space of 10 years. It is moving closer and closer ...

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