When we undertand the causes and effects of population growth, the next problem becomes how to limit and control it.

One of the most effective means of limiting population growth is providing schooling for girls. When children have access to education, they also gain opportunities for new kinds of careers, and have a chance of making decisions about their own life. Providing girls and young women with a better access to education is an important step in decreasing high birth rates in developing countries, as it makes women less dependent on men for gaining their livelihood. When being a mother of a family is no more the only option for young women, the birth rate can be slowed down.

Other means of decreasing high birth rates is providing people of developing countries better access to birth control and family planning. In some developing countries, contraception, sexual health and family planning are not taught in schools. As a result, some developing countries have started to experiment with compulsory lectures on these subjects for young couples that are getting married.

Another significant factor is providing good health care for children and expecting mothers in developing countries. This would have beneficial long-term effects. 

The costs of these methods could be only a fraction of the costs currently produced by unlimited population growth in developing countries. As over 90 % of the planet's total population growth takes place in developing countries, efforts to help contain population growth should be concentrated to these countries.

Health care and education are important means of limiting uncontrolled population growth in developing countries.