Q2. Do you know „Huge population is boon or burden for a country‟……. Prepare a report based on the
characteristics of a society with “too many under 15s and too few under 15s”.
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Explanation
BOON:-
Population growth provides us with a more number of working population, which is needed nowadays for speed progress.
India’s population is termed as a young population as the average age of Indian population is around 25-26 years, which is considered as productive age. This kind of population can help the economy to grow.
Greater population means more consumers for industries. So many industries focus on the countries having large population to sell their products. This leads to competition and eventually fall in the prices of many things.
Larger population provides a great manpower. If this manpower is utilized efficiently in different sectors , it can lead the country towards prosperity.
Population explosion also provides us with people of multiple talents in the fields such as sports, music, art etc. If a country invests well on human resources and provides enough opportunities to the people, it can come up with vast pool of talented people.
If the number of working population is greater than kids and elders, they can support them. This will reduce the dependency rate. As the dependency rate decreases, savings will increase, so are the investments. This will result in hike in the productivity, which will ultimately help the economy grow.
Bane :-
The increase in population puts a pressure on the several resources that we have. This leads to the overall shortage in land, jobs, capital, housing, and health services.
Rapid population explosion has led to the over exploitation of the natural resources and degradation of environment.
Environment degradation has resulted in many natural calamities that rarely happened earlier. It has also fastened global warming. Human actions are increasing it even more, deteriorating the situation.
For a huge population, it becomes more difficult to provide the facilities so basic such as water, health etc. Even if provided somehow, then the quality of the facilities decreases.
For feeding a large population, we need more production of food. Even though new techniques of agriculture have manifold our productions many times, there is still malnutrition reported in the developing and poor countries.
Conclusion :-
While the population explosion can give us many opportunities for development, it also takes a toll on our resources. This results in the degradation of the quality of living. The quality of a undernourished, poverty stricken, unhealthy but big society is definitely lower than a smaller but healthy, educated, economically secured, and well employed society.
The population can be our strength only when we have resources and power to feed, provide the basic facilities, health care and jobs. This will mould them into an asset. But in reality, we don’t have the necessary resources to do this. So we must put our efforts into the prevention of further increase of the population. We need to strike a balance between the quality and quantity.
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