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@Independentmi20

15 Tweets 28 reads Jun 08, 2022
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Why somalia/somalis must increase their fertility rate from 6 children per household to 8/9 children per household.
#somalia #mogadishu #somali
2/15
First of all we reject the argument that 🇸🇴 ’s current drought/famine cycles is evidence for why somalis shouldn’t increase the fertility rate as their is no scientific proof of any link to high fertility rate & famines and research on it in 🇸🇴 actually proves the opposite.
3/15
Somalia/somalis current standard of living is predominantly the consequences of civil war, displacement, education level & instability and not high fertility rate and an increase in fertility rate can if properly managed actually increase the standard of living.
4/15
Somalia’s population is approximately 20 million and somalia has a coastline of 3300 km and a land mass of 637,657 km2. In pic 2 i compare somalia to america to illustrate how big somalia actually is👇 and how densely populated Somalia actually is too.
5/15
Somalia is as big as italy & germany combined but these 2 nations have a population of 140 million and 🇸🇴 just 20 million and any argument that their land is more fertile for cultivation is in somalia’s context not valid b/c 🇸🇴 has many other resources to deal with that
6/15
Somalia has a coastline of 3300 km the longest coastline on mainland africa at the indian ocean enormously filled with fish, in the south, somalia’s has enough fertile land to “if property managed” sustain a huge population and to guarantee food security.
7/15
The increase in fertile rate will obviously increase the population size wich in effect increases the consumer base and at the same time increases the labour force that increase the economy resulting in to an increase in standard of living in Somalia.
8/15
Somalia simply doesn’t have the population to really benefit from the potential somalia has ! Somalia’s agricultural sector / fishery / energy / production / construction / healthcare / transport and many more.
We need more somalis
9/15
Somalia has massive untapped resources that is not yet exploited reaffirming that its invalid to use the current living standard of somalis as a yardstick or argument against increasing fertility rate when all resources of the country have not been taken into account.
10/15
A study done by perth’s edith cowan university and other universities all confirm that having bigger families increases happiness and gives children a stronger sense of belonging & the attention brothers & sisters give each other increases the happiness of the children 2👇
11/15
Somalis inhabit a huge land mass but the low population inhabiting it and the long empty distances btwn regions & cities is actually making interaction and trade less easy and disrupt social life to counter that 🇸🇴 must increase its fertility rate.
Look 👇👇
12/15
From a islamic perspective wich is very important to somalis increasing fertility rate and having big families is a good thing as it will increase the ummah and in fact majority of muslim countries have high or very stabil fertility rates ! Reproducing in islam is good 👍
13/15
Increase in fertility rate will lead to increase in somalis that can defend each other from any outside threat and the current state of world affairs has again proven that people can only but trust themselves! Higher fertility rate means bigger army to defend the people 👍
14/15
Having big families reduces depression and loneliness and increases sharing & teamwork capabilities and increases daily physical exercise ! This is all in consideration with somalia’s unexploited potentials.
15/15
In many countries a higher fertility rate will actually destabilize it and i am aware of that but that is not the case in somalia’s. And islamically & socially it is recommended and economically its needed and militarily its necessary !

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