The capital of Nigeria, Lagos, has more than 15 million inhabitants, but the economic conditions do not allow every child born to have food security and good sanitation conditions.
The UN report states that in Nigeria, people are living in poverty. they have to compete for the use of various resources of course
Be it electricity, water supply or mass transit. which is seriously lacking
According to the UN research report Many Nigerian students have to wake up at 5 in the morning to be on time for school.
On the way from home to school there was always a heavy traffic jam.
Your quality of life will only get worse.
The United Nations estimates that Nigeria’s population will increase from 216 million this year to 375 million over the next 30 years.
But the income of the population will decrease. because the big picture of the economy in no way seems to be growing to keep up with the increase in population
Statistics that cause concern that If population growth continues to rise as expected Nigeria will become the fourth most populous country in the world.
behind only China, India and the United States.
The matter of concern is that it is not only Nigeria that lacks the resources to meet the needs of its growing population.
But seven countries are projected to achieve more than half of the world’s total population growth between 2022 and 2050.
These countries are Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Egypt, Pakistan, Philippines.
and India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country next year.
This United Nations report estimates that the world’s population will increase to 8.5 billion by 2030.
and reach 9.7 billion by 2050, before reaching 10.4 billion by 2100.
The UN report drew attention to the “8 Billion Day”.
After reading it, I saw a disturbing image. This is because most of the population growth occurs in countries where development is lagging behind.
lacking almost all the necessities of life
These include infrastructure, education, jobs and food security.
The population size has not increased today. These countries also face a survival crisis.
If faced with an ever growing population It will make this world unstable.
Because a world with ever-increasing inequalities cannot expect peace.
Even rich countries cannot be relieved that poor countries do not stand up and clamor for more equity and resource sharing.
and if their grievances are not reciprocated The world may face serious political and social crises.
The same report says Although many countries have increasing populations But at least 61 countries have experienced population declines of about 1%.
Let’s take the United States for example. which today has a population of about 333 million people
The population growth rate last year was just 0.1%…the lowest in history
The total population of the planet has grown from just 2 billion in 1927 to 6 billion in 1998.
Because poor countries have more people Rich countries have fewer births.
due to the high cost of raising children and a decline in the marriage rate. Developed countries, from South Korea to France, are facing population decline. Because newborns are not enough to replace the elderly.
Many countries are trying to take various measures. fix this
Some countries offer better housing payments and loans for families with multiple children.
But it didn’t have much effect.
The United Nations says these measures make little change.
The number of people under 65 in high- and middle-income countries is expected to decline over the next 3 decades.
While the population older than that age will increase.
The United Nations predicts that future world population growth will be concentrated in low-income countries.
This presents a challenge for these countries, which already suffer from relatively low per capita incomes.
With young people tending to increase the burden on limited resources such as education and health care, countries
Non-profit organizations therefore try to raise awareness of issues such as contraception to reduce birth rates.
A crisis was initially predicted that would come with an overpopulation of the world.
To the point that we speak of the “end of the world” if the crisis cannot be avoided by the overproduction of world resources.
One such famous throwback book that I remember was called “The Population Bomb,” written by Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich in 1968.
This teacher had warned at the time that when people get up quickly What food will you bring to feed the newborn?
But the problem isn’t caused by advances in agricultural technology and slowing fertility rates.
But that doesn’t mean A picture of the growing world population in the poorest countries. But a decline in rich countries will not cause a serious global problem. because what will follow is World population growth will harm the environment.
And it will make global warming and deforestation more severe.
People’s quality of life will deteriorate.
the rich born less The poor are born a lot… the world will go into a distorted state and also become a global social crisis.
