Families Only!
I am grateful to witness the Saudi giant projects during King Abdullah’s era which made me really proud to belong to this country.
The upcoming project, is King Abdullah park in Malaz at Riyadh but still not certain if this park is part of the King Abdullah International Gardens as a phase or just another park.
The concern stone will be set next month ( I assume by King Abdullah), “The old equestrian field in Malaz area will be turned into a public park but the access will be limited to families only and the prince Fahad Al-Farhan’s park (which is much smaller) will be limited to the singles only after re-innovating it to occupy it with facilities that serve the sports activities.” Ibrahim Dujain, GM of Gardens and Environment constructions said according to the Riyadh newspaper.
What made this article to be brought up here, is the continuous negligence toward these young generation by the planners and developers in term of finding facilities for them to exhaust their energies!
The age structure in Saudi Arabia show a high rate of youngsters on below numbers occupying the country. Regardless, the youngsters are the corner stone of any country or community.
I am not assuming all these youngsters are singles but at least half of them are not married. However, CIA world Factbook shows the following statistics about Saudi Arabia’s population:
Age structure
0-14 years: 38% (male 5,557,453/female 5,340,614)
15-64 years: 59.5% (male 9,608,032/female 7,473,543)
65 years and over: 2.5% (male 363,241/female 343,750) (2009 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.6 years
male: 22.9 years
female: 19.9 years (2009 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.848% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 69
Birth rate:
28.55 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 52
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- King Abdullah Garden in Malaz
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- Families Only!
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- KAG
Death rate:
2.47 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 218
Net migration rate:
-7.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 173
Urbanization:
urban population: 82% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 2.5% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.29 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.06 male(s)/female
total population: 1.18 male(s)/female (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 11.57 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 148
male: 13.15 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 9.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.3 years
country comparison to the world: 69
male: 74.23 years
female: 78.48 years (2009 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.83 children born/woman (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 49
HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate:
0.01% (2001 est.)
country comparison to the world: 169
I guess we need to reconsider this approach! To allow a safe place for these youngsters to be at before it is too late!
