Population change is affecting people. With a figure of 6 billion and increasing, comes with an increase in starvation, having to compete with natural resources and space. However, the increase of world population may also mean more talents and ideas. So is the change in world population good or bad?
In less developed countries, lack of access to birth control, as well as cultural traditions that encourage women to stay home and have babies, lead to rapid population growth. The result is ever increasing numbers of poor people across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere who suffer from malnourishment, lack of clean water, overcrowding, inadequate shelter, and AIDS and other diseases.
In developed countries, such as America which takes up only 4% of the world population, uses 25% of all resources. Industrialized countries also contribute far more to climate change, ozone depletion and overfishing than developing countries. And as more and more residents of developing countries get access to Western media, or immigrate to the United States, they want to emulate the consumption-heavy lifestyles they see on their televisions and read about on the Internet.
Though China and India are developing countries, they are the two most populous countries. Why is the birth rate in developing countries much higher than developed countries?
Population density is total area population / land area in square kilometres. Small countries like Monaco and Singapore have the highest population density. Also because Singapore has a stable government and has job opportunities, thus resulting in people migrating to Singapore.
The country with the world's lowest population density is Mongolia with a population density of approximately 4 people per square mile. Mongolia's 2.5 million people occupy over 600,000 square mails of land. Mongolia's overall density is limited as only a tiny proportion of the land can be used for agriculture, the vast majority of the land can only be used for nomadic herding. Thus causing a dispersed population.
