Does saving lives lead to overpopulation?

DOES SAVING LIVES LEAD TO OVERPOPULATION? COLOMBIA VENEZUELA A lot of people worry that this is the case. But when more children survive, parents decide to have fewer children. Population growth rate can come down even as the child survival rate goes up. ECUADOR BRAZIL CHILE MORTALITY RATE FERTILITY RATE POPULATION GROWTH RATE The probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five. Percentage change of resident popu- lation compared to previous year. The average number of births per woman. 1965 122.5 6.1 2.9% 1975 84.4 4.5 2.5% 1990 38.9 3.3 2.1% 2010 16.6 2.2 1.3% = country averages #STOPTHEMYTH SOURCE: THE WORLD BANK