Problems Related to Population Growth

Population suppuration is a major solution within todays world, with the rapid and exponentially increasing cast of world growth causing problems with everyplacecrowded areas affecting the business environment as well as everyday life. The worlds commonwealth is at an estimated 7 billion race (BBC, 2011) and at todays run, population would skyrocket by 2100, to 27 billion from todays 7 billion. (Harvard Gazette, 2012). Sourced from BBC (2013)The above diagram shows the extent of the increase in the rate of population growth from the year 500B.C. to a forecasted 8. 5 billion raft in 2025. This toweringlights that, by 2025 the worlds population is on slash to more than treble since 1950. This increase in population growth over the last 200 years could be attributed to an increase in fertility, for example, unspoilt over 723,000 babies were born in England and Wales in 2010, up from fewer than 600,000 in 2000. The average number of children each woman is likely to have has gone(p) up from 1. 64 to 1. 98. (Daily Mail, 2012).This increase in fertility has not been united with an increase in the death rate which, due to factors such as better medicines and improved sanitation (Brooks, Weatherstone and Wilkinson, 2011, p. 169) and more stringent health and preventive procedures, has actually declined as many of the once incurable diseases have cures today. (Buzzle, 2012). The increase population growth has brought with it many problems, for example in China the demand for change magnitude production to satisfy demand from a higher population has put strain on resources as well as producing high levels of pollution which is a negative externality.This has resulted in a law universe passed restricting the number of children a family can have to 1 per couple. another(prenominal) problem with population growth is that more housing is necessary to intromit increased numbers of people. This has resulted in land that is used or could be used for farming being converted into housing. This is particularly disadvantageous because as Malthus theory suggests, the population is growing faster than the food supply.He theorises that the extra people must die, whereas Ester Boserup argued that necessity is the mother of invention and asserted that the increase in population pressure acts as an incentive to developing new engineering such as genetically modified crops (Rogers, Jalal & Boyd, 2008, p. 20). This has given rise to good debates concerning the use of disease-resistant, higher yielding modified crops which have been produced to cope with the increased populations demand.Also with this loss of land comes extinction of species due to their essential habitats being destroyed. A further issue with fast population growth is that with increased population comes increased poverty and inequality. The poorest most impoverished of the population dont have access to adequate birth wangle which means they are continuing to reproduce whilst having the same small meter of resources, this is leading to malnutrition and infant mortality, as well as adding strain to the already inadequate educational and healthcare systems.