Too high population?

Question

Don’t you think the population?

I was thinking now a day’s people are having 1 or 2 kids or non at all. As before people used to have an average of 5.

And most women are doing more carer than having a family.

Also more and more people are having abortions.

Funny too Japan even pays woman more and more money after each birth she has.

I just find it hard to believe that the population is getting higher, when people are not having as many children as they used to.

Answer 1

Population seems to be high but actually, it's not high. It's the perception of the individuals.

Answer 2

in the olden days lots of women died in child birth.. and the average life expectancy was 40 years old.. the survival rate of those 5 kids was low.....

now a days.. people live on average 80 years so the kids are not replacing you, your parents and sometimes not even  your grandparents....

the problem started 2 generations ago - with the big families who started surviving sickness that used to kill us off... those big families had kids so.. the population doubled.. then when those kids had kids.. it doubled again..

now if this generation has kids (the average being 2.4 kids) you can see this is in fact GROWTH..

the birth rate still passes the death rate.

We are currently over 6.5 BILLION People... the United Nations warned many years ago that 5 BILLION is a more sustainable level...

Many governments encourage people to have kids.. more kids means more workers.. more workers = more taxes!!!

abortions are not new.. more women are having SAFER abortions.. in the old days women used to DIE from abortions or be made sterile because of them.

oddly though - more intelligent people are having smaller families.. its the lower income and lower educated people who typically have larger families (and farmers who need the kids as labourers to some extent)

but over all the fact we are living longer means more people...

Answer 3

Child mortality rates used to be much higher. In the Solomons for example 50% of babies died before the first birthday untill about the 1950's.

     Life expectancy is also much longer than it used to be. And sure there are a few places such as Italy and Japan that the birth rate has dropped but those places do not account for a very high percentage of the population of the planet. India and China make up 1/3 of the global population.

  Anyway this is a really interesting link, you will like it.

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldCl...

Answer 4

If you think about it....

The generation that had 5 kids each probably had 1-2 kids, which would mean around 10 kids from each family. I think the population will steady out soon enough.

Answer 5

It is only the smart, productive people that are not having enough babies.  Nature wants the stupid people to breed and have tons of kids rather than the smart people.  This is due to the smarter people being able to conquer and manipulate nature better.  The entire concept of life and the universe is one of cycles.  Rising and falling, growing and declining is this cycle.

Answer 6

Well your story is all about whats happening in the DEVELOPED countries. what about places like India ? do you not have it on your map. The increase rate might have become a bit slow and low but that doesnt mean its decreasing. What about the population thats already here. From an environmentalists perspective, the density is already too high and, we still cant be happy about the increasing population. Soon we're gonna run out of food, water and land. thats why we need population control. May be thats why US government is mass murdering people in the middle east (which i dont accept at all).

Answer 7

The "birthrate" in many developed nations has already plateaued.  There was an article in a National Geographic that showed many nations in Europe have actually begun declining in population - and here in the United States, the higher birthrates are mainly among ethnic minorities...

The "global population" is increasing mainly in the less-developed nations and developing nations.

Answer 8

The whole population could be scrunched standing up in a space the size or Rhode Island. Of course the population isn't too high; it's just that some of the richer percentage waste more than they should.

As to the other details, You are correct about only 1 or 2 kids if any when it comes to Europe or Japan - in those places, the populations are imploding rapidly. But in other places like Africa and India, people are having lots of babies. It all balances out.

BTW, I come from a family of three. I live in America, where the family size is fairly stable; unlike the extremes of Europe and Africa.