What is Over Population and Cause of Poverty


Over Population:
Over population is one of the most dominant cotemporary social problems. World population is increasing at a rate of 1.9% per annum. While in Pakistan, population is growing at a rate of 3.0% per annum. Ideally speaking population growth is problem only if the rate of increase in population surpasses the parallel growth in resources required to sustain that population. In reality, it is absorbed that with the increase in population, rate of progress decreases and national resources go to waste.

Pakistan is facing this problem on a very serious level because the resources (mainly land) are decreasing due to water logging and salinity. Yield per acre, from the land that is cultivated, is also tremendously low. This is depicted by the fact that our 28% population is engaged in our crop supply.
Population expansion is a boom for a nation because no country destroys its men, women, and their children. Sociologists feel this expansion is a great menace to human life. They say that most of the resources are consumed by exceeding number of family-members, which brings down standard of living every one.

Cause of Poverty:
Poverty is a social problem of Pakistan because majority of the population dwells on the subsistence level, and some even below that. These people are deprived of modern facilities of education, health, communication and education. These people are mostly illiterate and they associate with the same stratum of the society.

Poverty is considered a social problem because these people lag behind the powerful and affluent members of the society. They do not understand the ways of progress and are caught in a “Vicious Circle” of poverty hampering their opportunity to get a head in life, and this lack of opportunity further deteriorating their present level of poverty. Due to their pathetic condition, they get frustrated and may resort to a variety of criminal behaviours disturbing the stability and balance of the peaceful social existence.

Causes and Solution:
1. Illiteracy, because in the competitive economic world of today an illiterate, or for that matter, a moderately literate person can not land a “well-paying” job.
2. Inheriting poverty is another factor for being poor.
3. Wasting time in idle activities and not keeping a check on ones income and outflows also lead to poverty.
4. Wastage of inherent resources in criminal, delinquent and other idle activities is also a cause of poverty in our society.

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