Topic: Population: Economic strength or weakness - page 9. (Read 1682 times)

The population is added strength when they contribute economically to nation building in individual quota. It becomes a weakness if hunger, unemployment, and other vices has become upheld.

With this current technological innovations in crypto, AI, Web3 worldwide, we are already witnesses to a population rise and a generation of android/smartphone babies who live more online and with earning skills online too.

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?

There is one big factor that can change everything about the theory mentioned above. The reason why you see differences between the nations as per their population and economic growth success or unsuccess lies within the "literacy" rate of that particular nation.

Population is just a factor that could drive the economy of a country towards the progressive path as well as downwards. It all depends upon the person in power. The population being productive is in the hands of the government. The government should engage into development and creating more opportunities. When the government fails, then the young population gets deviated from the track. This is where more crimes takes place and the same population turns to be weakness. Right now China and India stands high on population. Both are at the good position in terms economic strength, however the policies India government hold at the moment to divide and rule can anytime be a threat to the country as well as upliftment of economy.

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?

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?

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?

Those pushing for reduction in population growth are doing it for their selfish agenda, it is very stupid to consider high population as a threat to economic growth, this is why I pity nations in the west, especially Europe, they have been brainwashed to think this is good, you don't want to give birth to more children, but you keep brining in strangers to your country, and these strangers are very prolific, soon you will become a minority in their own country. The money your government is supposed to be spending on you, they are spending it on strangers, if you have a father that behaves this way, you will call him out but most people just keep quiet. If this trend continues in the next 50 years most of the European countries would have lost their identity, but the like of Asians and Africans population would have increased significantly and will dominate because democracy is a game of number. 

Peasants usually have many children - someone has to work in the fields. But today's children don't want to work in the fields, they want to go to the city. There are not so many jobs in the city, and entrepreneurs like to use cheap migrants. So there is a situation where a large population is a big problem. There are jobs, but few indigenous people want to work in hard jobs, and the easy jobs quickly run out

 Peasants usually have many children - someone has to work in the fields. But today's children don't want to work in the fields, they want to go to the city. There are not so many jobs in the city, and entrepreneurs like to use cheap migrants. So there is a situation where a large population is a big problem. There are jobs, but few indigenous people want to work in hard jobs, and the easy jobs quickly run out

I particularly don’t agree that underdevelopment in certain countries are caused by overpopulation although overpopulation seems to be a common factor in underdeveloped and developing countries.
While bad governance from the government would always top the list on reasons on why those countries remain underdeveloped, literacy rate also is a key indicator on why any country would remain underdeveloped and overpopulated.

In a lot of places where there is little or no government intervention, unemployed people who go idle all day tend to mostly find the time to procreate with no little thought of the aftermath. Babies would be born into poverty and the cycle continues further increasing the gap between the wealthy and the poor.
Overpopulation could be a blessing to a nation as well as a major problem. It falls down to the government and also the people on how best to make use of the potential in Human Resources.

People are the new oil.

China and India are most populous countries in the world and are one of big global powers. Clearly they both have utilised there population as there strength rather then a weakness. Also there are countries like Switzerland,  who have very small population still they are very much developed. So population alone is not a criteria for success or failure. You need to have a road map about how to proceed in right direction.

With regard to the question, there can be two ways: the first is good by encouraging citizens to increase offspring and reproduction, and the second is evil by trying to keep poor countries backward and spread wars and chaos so that young people in these countries are forced to emigrate and work in developed countries.

The world is changing, and we have seen that computers can now accomplish many things, but this does not negate the need for humans in such sectors.  Many undeveloped countries cannot stop population growth, hence the population will continue to expand. It is now up to each country's government to make good use of its people in order to attain cheap labour.

Even if that's not entirely true - but I believe part of it is. Countries with high populations will find it difficult
Most of them choose to work in other countries regardless of educational background - but it has become a good trend to rid the population of the unemployment rate. Such a country will exist as a third world country among the global community - but the government will not escape its responsibility to provide jobs. For most of the unemployed who are still having trouble finding work.