Disadvantages of high population growth
- Increase government expenditure on infrastructure like schools and health care
- Increased environmental degradation/pollution, garbage accumulation
- It fuels income inequality since not all people will get access to natural and economic resources
- It worsens unemployment in an economy
- It leads to brain drainage because skilled labour is not well remunerated.
- It worsens balance of payment because high populations tends to lead to high importation
- It reduces the marginal propensity to save
- It leads to high illiteracy rate due to lack of enough education facilities
- Increased dependence burden from the young children
- Causes political instability since majority of the people disgruntled for not gaining access to national resources.
- Leads to starvation due to shortage of food
- Disease outbreak
- Leads to rural-urban migration
- Water shortage
- congestion
CATEGORIES Economics
TAGS Dr. Bbosa Science
