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want to explore better opportunities in follow family planning measures and thus
terms of employment and standard of living contribute to a rise in population. At some
tend to immigrate to these countries. Rural points, overpopulation might be referred
to urban migration is another important to as an increase in human resources. An
and widespread type of migration. Due to increase in the number of people leads to
the migration of people to urban places that an increase in the number of productive
are already being overused in terms of the hands and creative minds. However,
a larger population requires a greater
available resources, homelessness, congestion
number of resources which eventually
and crime become the symptoms of an
leads to the depletion of natural resources.
overpopulated city region.
• Poverty: Many families produce children
not only because they are ignorant but
because they need them. Producing
more children in poor families illustrates
the paradox of population-poverty
relationship. Poverty is both the cause
and eff ect of population growth. Having
produced many children in order to have
sons to combat the family’s growing
needs, parents are forced to keep them out
of school to supplement their household
Migration raises population of developed countries.
income. Ironically, a large family is seen
• Illiteracy: Illiteracy is an important as the poor man’s only way to combat
cause of overpopulation. People who lack poverty caused by overpopulation.
education fail to understand the need to
prevent excessive population growth.
Th ey are unaware of the harmful eff ects
that overpopulation may cause.
Children are kept out of schools to increase income.
• Birth and death rates: Due to improved
technology, effi cient healthcare and
medical facilities, global birth rates
have soared. Th e probability of infants
Illiteracy leads to overpopulation.
surviving beyond the age of fi ve has also
Illiterate people are also unaware of the increased. Better healthcare has led to a
ways they can control population. Lack of reduction in mortality rates which has
family planning leads to overpopulation. led to a substantial growth in the overall
Due to their ignorance, they do not population.
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