Here’s a video about Nigerians discussing the problems of a too rapid population growth: https://www.familyplanning2020.org/news/checkmating-nigeria’s-population-boom Africa doubling its population every 20 years is a time bomb for the entire world.
If we want to have less unemployment and extreme poverty in Tanzania, we need smaller families. It worked in all other countries, huge economic development followed in the years after less extreme birth rates (around two per woman) became common. Everyone would benefit from less extreme birth...
The story of the "ecocide" and collapse of the civilization on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui in the native language, became very popular with the film "Rapa Nui" (1994) and the book by American biologist Jared Diamond "Collapse - How societies choose to fail or survive" (2005).
After the proposed...
The problem is not necessarily a large population, but a huge population growth. If a very large amount of a nation's people is youthful, the working / dependency ratio is out of balance. This will result in unemployment, poverty, not enough money for education systems and so on. And the risks...
Yes, overpopulation was a big problem in China and India. That's why China forced people to get no more than one child, and that's why India forced sterilization on men because its population size limits were reached. It's a brutal way of population control, which can be prevented if a nation's...
Country - Total fertility rate - Population above 10 million
http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=PopDiv&f=variableID%3A54
Niger 6.5
Somalia 5.6
DR Congo 5.4
Mali 5.4
Chad 5.3
Angola 5.2
Burundi 5.0
Nigeria 5.0
The Gambia 4.9
Burkina Faso 4.8
Tanzania 4.6
Benin 4.5
Mozambique 4.5
Uganda 4.4
Central...
Overpopulation is a major cause of most of the world’s problems. Whether it is a question of food shortage, lack of drinking water or energy shortages, every country in the world is affected by it – or will be. Partly thanks to the import of goods from abroad, any particular country is able to...
Overpopulation is a major cause of most of the world’s problems. Whether it is a question of food shortage, lack of drinking water or energy shortages, every country in the world is affected by it – or will be. Partly thanks to the import of goods from abroad, any particular country is able to...
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