Topic: Population: Economic strength or weakness - page 7. (Read 1787 times)
Since I went to school and was taught about economics, I concluded that too large a population is a serious problem for the economy, but after many countries reported population shortages because many people did not want to have children, it now creates a more complicated problem, many places or cities now have to look for workers cheap labor from abroad thereby making production costs higher.
Depends on which place you are talking about. Manpower is a blessing but excess of anything is bad even if it is a good thing. Too much of it could make it bad. Having huge manpower but not being able to use it in every field will make it a weakness. In many countries, there aren't many opportunities. Thus the competition is high. The government is unable to provide its population with work. In cases like this, it will be a weakness for the economy.
On the other hand, if your country can provide you with good opportunities, overpopulation won't be a problem. Despite having competition, everyone will be able to contribute to the cause. That's how this will become a strength of the country's economy.
But if you want to talk about the whole world's economy, overpopulation helps a lot. Everyone alive needs to consume food. Poor, rich, middle class. All of us need food. So as we consume food on a daily basis, we are helping the economy.
Cheap labor is based on work experience and also certificates of expertise. The price of a job is cheap. because it does not require expertise to make policies and decisions. the thing that can be done to get to reduce the price of a job is to take advantage of technology.On the other hand, if your country can provide you with good opportunities, overpopulation won't be a problem. Despite having competition, everyone will be able to contribute to the cause. That's how this will become a strength of the country's economy.
But if you want to talk about the whole world's economy, overpopulation helps a lot. Everyone alive needs to consume food. Poor, rich, middle class. All of us need food. So as we consume food on a daily basis, we are helping the economy.
if the workforce in question is related to the public, such as social services. it can not. It's different if the work in question is related to technology, it could be replaced with a machine. for example in agriculture. The country can make the concept of automatic irrigation for example.
But if you want to talk about the whole world's economy, overpopulation helps a lot. Everyone alive needs to consume food. Poor, rich, middle class. All of us need food. So as we consume food on a daily basis, we are helping the economy.
Before you start agreeing or conceiving the idea that over population does help, you first and foremost have to wonder why, it’s advocated against? If it did truly helps, it would have been a welcomed idea and you won’t find many persons terminating pregnancies, government would have encouraged its citizens to go about making babies and the nation continues to grow in man power but, this ain’t the case. Over population is forth against everywhere across the globe and that means, it doesn’t help.Should man power be the issue, you could always get external help to get the job done. It’s rather common.
Over population is a problem given that, it can not be matched with the available or needed resources and that would lead to chaos on different fronts. People ought to try and not to be selfish and practice birth control so we could save our world, over population is a problem.
Depends on which place you are talking about. Manpower is a blessing but excess of anything is bad even if it is a good thing. Too much of it could make it bad. Having huge manpower but not being able to use it in every field will make it a weakness. In many countries, there aren't many opportunities. Thus the competition is high. The government is unable to provide its population with work. In cases like this, it will be a weakness for the economy.
On the other hand, if your country can provide you with good opportunities, overpopulation won't be a problem. Despite having competition, everyone will be able to contribute to the cause. That's how this will become a strength of the country's economy.
But if you want to talk about the whole world's economy, overpopulation helps a lot. Everyone alive needs to consume food. Poor, rich, middle class. All of us need food. So as we consume food on a daily basis, we are helping the economy.
On the other hand, if your country can provide you with good opportunities, overpopulation won't be a problem. Despite having competition, everyone will be able to contribute to the cause. That's how this will become a strength of the country's economy.
But if you want to talk about the whole world's economy, overpopulation helps a lot. Everyone alive needs to consume food. Poor, rich, middle class. All of us need food. So as we consume food on a daily basis, we are helping the economy.
Depends on how you use it. Plus it also depends on how a nation grew as well, any nation in the world, even the smallest of nations, could make a great economic investment and put itself to the right place and with some growing pains could become one of the best nations. Just look at South Korea, sure they got a lot of help, but they didn't squander that help and became a terrible nation, they used that help and now one of the highest growing economies in the world for the past decades. It all depends on wanting it, and that's the key reason most nations fails. It doesn't depend on your population or not, it depends on how much you are willing or not to improve.
This is true and great example on that. At the end of the day the numbers do not matter, it will all come down to the willingness of the people to change and improve their lives and help the economy of their country. So what if you have a lot of people in your country, it would not matter if all (if not most) of them have the drive to work and improve their lives and contribute to society.
Depends on how you use it. Plus it also depends on how a nation grew as well, any nation in the world, even the smallest of nations, could make a great economic investment and put itself to the right place and with some growing pains could become one of the best nations. Just look at South Korea, sure they got a lot of help, but they didn't squander that help and became a terrible nation, they used that help and now one of the highest growing economies in the world for the past decades. It all depends on wanting it, and that's the key reason most nations fails. It doesn't depend on your population or not, it depends on how much you are willing or not to improve.
Population should be an advantage if there would be a good leader which would utilize the manpower for the betterment of a country. But in most instances no organization of people is being made to make the advantage efficient. Ending is poverty as we all know. Unlike with big countries and regions, perhaps China who has a large population, they somehow managed to make use of the number in order for their country to be one of the biggest ones in the world. And unfortunately, many countries having large population did not manage to do the same thing as well. Before I was thinking it is all about the leader but nowadays individuals are weighing down ecobomic progress because of that number. 
Having a large population can be both a strength and weakness, depending on the quality of the same. If the population is highly skilled and educated, then it can be an advantage to the country to have such a large population. However, if the population is of low quality, then it can be a burden to have a huge population as the government needs to spend a lot of resources on education, employment and medical care. African nations do have a rapidly growing population, but they are in poverty because the population is not sufficiently skilled.
Then I can say the country is poor, not because of over population but because of bad governance. If the government was good and the state was well planned, there will be a high amount of skilled labour to make the country productive.
There are countries in Africa that are not very populated but they're still poor despite the fact that they have a lot of sought after natural resources.
Population is a good thing, if managed properly. "Two good heads are better than one", they say. Emphasis on "good". There's no point having many heads if they're not good. And they can only be good when they have been invested in.
If a vast majority of the population is educated and taught different skills and a favorable environment is created so they can do business and thrive, then that country won't have a problem of over population. Sadly, the leaders prefer to fill their pockets and forget about everything else.
Depends on how you use it. Plus it also depends on how a nation grew as well, any nation in the world, even the smallest of nations, could make a great economic investment and put itself to the right place and with some growing pains could become one of the best nations. Just look at South Korea, sure they got a lot of help, but they didn't squander that help and became a terrible nation, they used that help and now one of the highest growing economies in the world for the past decades. It all depends on wanting it, and that's the key reason most nations fails. It doesn't depend on your population or not, it depends on how much you are willing or not to improve.
The population could be a blessing or a curse. This depends on the leaders of the country we are talking about and the people therein.
If policies are not good enough, the higher the population, the more devasting it would be. Another thing about the population is about those people that form the population (the masses), if they are nonentities, then there is nothing much positive that would come out of it.
Forget about increasing or reducing the population, it doesn't work, they are just litmus test as far as I'm concerned and it has different results per country. Once the foundation/system is wrong, it's a problem, the country can't get it right with either increased or reduced population.
True. Population has nothing to do with the present country’s economy status as everything lies down on its foundation and on how the country’s government enforce its laws and policies towards their citizens. Now, if the government is bias and does not offer equal opportunities to everyone, then expect that the whole country will be in a mess. Everything that has happened to the country does not reflect on what type of citizens they have, but what type of government that the country is taking its side.If policies are not good enough, the higher the population, the more devasting it would be. Another thing about the population is about those people that form the population (the masses), if they are nonentities, then there is nothing much positive that would come out of it.
Forget about increasing or reducing the population, it doesn't work, they are just litmus test as far as I'm concerned and it has different results per country. Once the foundation/system is wrong, it's a problem, the country can't get it right with either increased or reduced population.
The population could be a blessing or a curse. This depends on the leaders of the country we are talking about and the people therein.
If policies are not good enough, the higher the population, the more devasting it would be. Another thing about the population is about those people that form the population (the masses), if they are nonentities, then there is nothing much positive that would come out of it.
Forget about increasing or reducing the population, it doesn't work, they are just litmus test as far as I'm concerned and it has different results per country. Once the foundation/system is wrong, it's a problem, the country can't get it right with either increased or reduced population.
True. Population has nothing to do with the present country’s economy status as everything lies down on its foundation and on how the country’s government enforce its laws and policies towards their citizens. Now, if the government is bias and does not offer equal opportunities to everyone, then expect that the whole country will be in a mess. Everything that has happened to the country does not reflect on what type of citizens they have, but what type of government that the country is taking its side. If policies are not good enough, the higher the population, the more devasting it would be. Another thing about the population is about those people that form the population (the masses), if they are nonentities, then there is nothing much positive that would come out of it.
Forget about increasing or reducing the population, it doesn't work, they are just litmus test as far as I'm concerned and it has different results per country. Once the foundation/system is wrong, it's a problem, the country can't get it right with either increased or reduced population.
A close look at this situation shows that many of these overpopulated nations mostly in Africa and Asia are underdeveloped. While these underpopulated nations are economically buoyant. I think the reason for the poverty of these developing nations is not the population but bad governance and the inability to maximize and distribute available resources equally. We cannot deny the fact that these overpopulated nations are economically important to these developed nations in terms of human resources. And they contribute immensely to the development of these first-world nations in terms of cheap labour.
Population in the case of Africa critically looking at it we can all agree that the demographic size is not the problem but it's bad leader and poor policy formulation and implementation to the letter. Russia is a European country with a population 4 times of some African countries but yet Russia is one of the developed countries of the world . Hence, we can't blame population for the underdevelopment of development in Africa but it's a result of the lack of walk the talk by the political and economic leaders highly being so corrupt without recourse to real development stride.Am not dispute the reality that population can be a barrier to economic development of a country but not entirely in the case with African countries it's comparatively a corrupt practice. Africa as a continent each country is blessed with countless natural resources both mineral and agricultural resources but how many African countries are exporting agricultural produce to others nations rather they depend on grains from Russia and Ukraine while the leaders sit at home and plunder the national cake.
You described 2 abnormal situation about the population, underpopulation and overpopulation. Of course, these situations will bring bad impacts on the economic status on the countries. Those country with underpopulation, they probably are difficult to have enough human resource. But they can deal this situation by importing the labors from other countries. Japan is one of the example of the country that import the labors because they have not enough human resource. While the country with overpopulation, they will be difficult to manage the issues about their society. Surely one of the solution is to let them spreading to other countries as the labors.
However, I can agree that the economic weakness is also caused by the bad management of the government. There are many corrupt governments, and they also can't utilize their natural resources due to their lack of knowledge and equipment.
However, I can agree that the economic weakness is also caused by the bad management of the government. There are many corrupt governments, and they also can't utilize their natural resources due to their lack of knowledge and equipment.
We have had different analyses about the implication of population on the economy of a nation. Some economists will argue that the reason for the underdevelopment of most countries is because of overpopulation. Hence they are advised to cut down the population through diverse means like birth control and so on. In other countries, economists are also predicting economic woes because of underpopulation. These nations have been advised to increase the birth rate through diverse means. Some nations are giving citizens diverse welfare packages to increase the number of children they have. Some are encouraging immigration to fill the gaps created by the labor shortages.
A close look at this situation shows that many of these overpopulated nations mostly in Africa and Asia are underdeveloped. While these underpopulated nations are economically buoyant. I think the reason for the poverty of these developing nations is not the population but bad governance and the inability to maximize and distribute available resources equally. We cannot deny the fact that these overpopulated nations are economically important to these developed nations in terms of human resources. And they contribute immensely to the development of these first-world nations in terms of cheap labour.
How do you think these developed nations will fill vacancies in their nations and get cheap labor if the population of these developing nations is reduced?
I agree, let's make our country as an example we have a lot of good resources and good things that will made our economy good and improve but due to the corruption and bad education system we cannot maximize this resources. We have a very poor economic strategy , so many people now migrated overseas even though the cost of living is costly too , they just want to escape this country. A close look at this situation shows that many of these overpopulated nations mostly in Africa and Asia are underdeveloped. While these underpopulated nations are economically buoyant. I think the reason for the poverty of these developing nations is not the population but bad governance and the inability to maximize and distribute available resources equally. We cannot deny the fact that these overpopulated nations are economically important to these developed nations in terms of human resources. And they contribute immensely to the development of these first-world nations in terms of cheap labour.
How do you think these developed nations will fill vacancies in their nations and get cheap labor if the population of these developing nations is reduced?
A close look at this situation shows that many of these overpopulated nations mostly in Africa and Asia are underdeveloped. While these underpopulated nations are economically buoyant. I think the reason for the poverty of these developing nations is not the population but bad governance and the inability to maximize and distribute available resources equally. We cannot deny the fact that these overpopulated nations are economically important to these developed nations in terms of human resources. And they contribute immensely to the development of these first-world nations in terms of cheap labour.
How do you think these developed nations will fill vacancies in their nations and get cheap labor if the population of these developing nations is reduced?
How do you think these developed nations will fill vacancies in their nations and get cheap labor if the population of these developing nations is reduced?
Statistics says the first 3 most populated countries of the world are China, India and then follow by United State and yet if we are to consider the development of those countries, they are biggest among the dominants, and by the numbers, they are developed countries that are doing fine; The first african country among the largest populated country is Nigeria and by resources, they are bless just that corruption has eaten them badly which has affected their devlopment including me that is typing, African countries are bless.
One of the main cause of over population is religion, illetracy and ignorance, people with religious believe will tell you that they will practice what they believe and that is why over population will be difficult to control, even those that don't practice religion are not taking measures but I think as inflation is hitting everyone and price of goods are increasing, it is becoming difficult for them to maintain 3 square meal, they don't have choice than to maintain because the poor are the major problem of this over population.
One of the reason while some of the over populated countries are under developed is as result of lack of management and unemployment to the nation, because they can not control the numbers of individuals living in their environment per say, so I believe that many people who have over population always have inflation and what means a country not have not developed is based on the economy of the country.
You're right, population should be a major to how to quantify the strength of a nation and not that population should be it's counterfeit for development because countries with higher population should have more opportunities to get severed of equal rights since the numbers of the people will increase the domestic productivity of the country which be incentivise more internal generation revenue for the government and this same IGR will still be returned back to the society in helping the people and less privileged among them including community services government render for free such as road network, light and electricity.
A big population can be a strength if it's managed properly, in a way that encourages the people in the workforce to be productive, to open businesses, to innovate, and to pay taxes. A small population can be a weakness if a country is in a politically unstable reagion/situation (because bigger neighbors can be a real threat to reckon with) and also, again, if it's not managed properly. There are prosperous nations with big and small populations, big and small territories.
A big population has advantage to create bigger wealth if the society is well functioned and can product good things which have value but if the society is malfunctioned, it will be a burden of the world with poverty, diseases and immoral activities.A small population can be very wealth if it is excellently in operations but we rarely see such population. It is hard for Switzerland, Singapore to have big economy like the USA. or China.
A big population can be a strength if it's managed properly, in a way that encourages the people in the workforce to be productive, to open businesses, to innovate, and to pay taxes. A small population can be a weakness if a country is in a politically unstable reagion/situation (because bigger neighbors can be a real threat to reckon with) and also, again, if it's not managed properly. There are prosperous nations with big and small populations, big and small territories.
I think overpopulation is a real problem in some countries, and so is underpopulation, but overall the amount of people does not determine the economic success.
I think overpopulation is a real problem in some countries, and so is underpopulation, but overall the amount of people does not determine the economic success.
It could be a strength or a weakness . It is determined by the environment. China is one of the most populous countries on earth yet technologically they are ahead, they don suffer from hunger or starvation. They have a very low crime rate and have managed to fight off corruption in their country. The same thing cannot be said of India for instance. India still struggles with systematic corruption, pollution and inability to Carter for the needs of her citizenry. I think that China is the model country for other countries who need to learn about population growth and expansion can take a lead from.
I do not think we can use China as a model for the management of their population, their one child policy lead to tens of millions of forced abortions and sterilizations, there is also an imbalance of men and women as Chinese families traditionally prefer men over women, and finally now the Chinese government is realizing they may not have enough young workers to fuel their economic growth, this means the problems regarding its demographics are even bigger at China than in most western countries. It could be a strength or a weakness . It is determined by the environment. China is one of the most populous countries on earth yet technologically they are ahead, they don suffer from hunger or starvation. They have a very low crime rate and have managed to fight off corruption in their country. The same thing cannot be said of India for instance. India still struggles with systematic corruption, pollution and inability to Carter for the needs of her citizenry. I think that China is the model country for other countries who need to learn about population growth and expansion can take a lead from.
Instead of environment I'd say it's the government. Of course a lot of factors affects the outcome of whether or not population can affect a country positively or negatively. However, most of these factors are under the decision and leadership of the government.
It could be a strength or a weakness . It is determined by the environment. China is one of the most populous countries on earth yet technologically they are ahead, they don suffer from hunger or starvation. They have a very low crime rate and have managed to fight off corruption in their country. The same thing cannot be said of India for instance. India still struggles with systematic corruption, pollution and inability to Carter for the needs of her citizenry. I think that China is the model country for other countries who need to learn about population growth and expansion can take a lead from.
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