Pressure mounts as global population set to reach 7 billion

SHE’S a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon.

The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay the required fees.

“I regret to have made all those children,” says Godelive Ndageramiwe. “If I were to start over, I would only make two or three.”