Population Growth and Economic Development

There are many horrendous effects that come from population growth. One of the many major effects include decreasing amounts of available land. Another is the decreasing amount of essential natural resources. A part

Chapter one “Population” explains how population changed through the years and what caused the population explosion. One of the reasons was a reduction of death rate after World War II due to being able to stop some diseases. Also, people in less developed countries believe in having more children, often due to religion or tradition. More children provide more wealth. The chapter is explaining how population growth affects development. When the growth is to rapid it causes that most of the population in a country is nonproductive, therefore more resources are needed to maintain a country. On the other hand, if the growth is too low, also more funds are needed to support older part of population. There is no good answer to how fast population

Thesis: The topic of human population growth is an important issue due to its impacts upon people in developing countries, economics, religion, food production, and the environment; without any limitations, population growth can lead to negative consequences, such as famine and environmental destruction, or even positive outcomes, such as potential economic growth.

This increase in population means there is more supply and demand due to the increase in workers and consumers, more consumers equals more demand and more workers equals more labor which equals more

The article by Dennis Dimick brings up some very good points about the increasing population. He states that with our current population of 7 billion people, we currently do not have enough food to eat. With the population increasing day-by-day, we will face more shortage in the future. He also brings up the issue of natural resources. We are currently using so much natural resources that we will run out very soon. The use of natural resources tend to increase with increase in social standing (wealth).

The revenues are not enough to provide for the population growth. This affects families to save less because they are spending all of their income on basic needs and cannot afford to educate their children, which produces poverty in the next generation. This results in low qualification and low chance of employment for children when they reach the working age. Due to this, industries and services cannot develop. With the increase of population, the volume of employment and unemployment increases. The number of unemployed depends on the size of the active population called the Labour Force. If the growth rate of the population is higher than the job opportunities available to the labour force, unemployment will occur. When there is an increase in population, society is solely focused on providing the basic needs. This results in the lack of obtaining education and because of this they cannot help the economy expand. Also, there are more consumers with the increase of population than producers, causing the restriction of economic expansion.

The problem is that people don’t know how to properly sustain a population at their carrying capacity. Some places have met their carrying capacity but most places haven’t. The places that have don’t know how to make the best of what they have for the amount of population they have to care for. We also have places that have run out of the resources necessary to sustain a population of their current size.

In areas where power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few, it is difficult for the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty that is often passed from generation to generation. Rapid population growth makes this effort even more difficult. Hunger has always been a companion to poverty. Most experts agree that the world could feed today's population, and a considerably larger number, if income were redistributed, if modern farming methods were used everywhere, if land reform policies were put into effect, if meat consumption were reduced, if non-nutritious crops were replaced by nutritious crops, and if waste and corruption were controlled. However, rapid population growth may intensify the hunger problem; in the most rapidly growing countries, population growth can reduce or eliminate food production gains resulting from modernization of farming. Population pressures may also encourage practices such as over irrigation and overuse of croplands, which undermine the capacity to feed larger numbers. In some cases, population growth is quite directly related to a social problem because it increases the absolute numbers whose needs must be

In some poor countries, people usually have lots of children in an individual family, and the children can cost a lot of money, due to education, medicine, and nutrition. The family don't have enough money or resources to pay for their children, and then the children can easily become criminals and cause social problems. Overpopulation in a city or a country can cause the people to be unable to find a job and end up unemployed. In the nineteenth or early twentieth century in Europe, people who can not find a good job, went to their colonies such as, America and Asia. Nowadays, the people who are in the poor country can only go to the city. Then huge numbers of people come to the city, and everyone need food, water, and a place that they can live. The needs of the city growing rapidly. However, the natural resources are limited in some countries like China, India, and Pakistan and they do not have enough high-quality resources to support their vast population. As people are using more natural resources, they are also increasing the emission of the pollution. These caused the environmental burden. And the environmental problem is related with the population increasing. As long as the population increases, greater environmental challenges are to

This is destroying the land which is harder to grow crops making us buy supplies from other countries. When the country started to overpopulate, the country has a rise of unemployment and this is because the country cant support all of the people and give everyone jobs which lead to many becoming homeless without the governments help. Because of the rise in unemployment there is a rise to crime as people will steal various items to feed their family and provide them basic necessities for life. Also as the population rises the cost of living does as well. The cost of homes, insurance, food, and healthcare. We have to pay to survive and feed everyone in our families. Another contribution to the over population is the increase and more knowledge of sicknesses and how to cure/ prevent them.

The populations of Agrarian civilizations may increase to be too big but that can be a good thing. But at the same time Foragers an increase in population can have a great effect on their way of life less food for everyone and more work.

Amartya Sen defines economic development in terms of personal freedom, freedom to choose from a range of options. While economic growth may lead to an increase in the purchasing power of people, if the country has a repressed economy, there is lack of choice and hence personal freedom in restricted. Hence once again growth has taken place without any development. While economic growth may result in an improvement in the standard of living of a relatively small proportion of the population whilst the majority of the population remains poor. It is how the economic growth is distributed amongst the population that determines the level of development.

An overcrowded area puts enormous pressure on the state for the provision of houses and other services. People in the urban areas end up being jobless because there is a lot of demand for jobs that is caused by this overpopulation. Even the rural areas suffer because there will be depopulation, people will move out leaving the place to the elders only. The rural areas will not be productive in anyway because people who are economically active have left, this means we may end up not having people who can bring changes in the rural areas or those who serve as role model to the upcoming generation.

This can be measured by the following formula; Per capita nominal GDP = Nominal GDP / Population, Per capita real GDP = Real GDP / Population. Seven factors determine economic growth. Natural resources such as land, mineral deposits, waterways; climatic conditions provide an essential foundation to economic growth. Combined with the other resources of capital, labor and enterprises, natural resources can be developed and organized to increase the productive capacity if the nation. Consequently the quality and size of the labor force is a major determinant of economic growth. Education and vocational training are essential the growth potential of a nation. The promotion of education and job training schemes increase the knowledge, skills and flexibility of the workforce that contributes to potentially higher levels of productivity and efficiency. Whether from natural increase or immigration population growth can cause a higher level of economic growth. An increasing population requires increased public spending on housing, education and other social needs while businesses expectations of

The World Bank says that overpopulation is the main inhibitor of development, because governments do not have the capital necessary to provide for large populations of people and work on capitalistic economic growth. This