Population Media Center is an innovative non-profit working to solve human overpopulation and ensure environmental sustainability. Today, we want to help you understand the key mutable factors that are driving ongoing global population growth of 80 million people per year.

Believe it or not, lack of access to contraception and family planning services is a relatively small problem. Far more influential challenges include:

• Fear of contraception due to rumors such as "it causes cancer," or "it will make you infertile forever."
• Patriarchal societal norms that demand large families with many sons
• A lack of primary education for women and girls

Download the whitepaper "The Real Reasons for Population Growth," to learn more about these important issues.