kickok1975
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Bigger population means increase in competition for resources effectively keeping the standards of living of majority of population low.1. What's the implication for India when India's has biggest population in the world?
India can feed all its people and raise their living standard only when effective governments rule the country. India has good amount of arable land to feed the people but the productivity has to be increased from the present rates.2. Can India feed all her growing people and raise their living standard at same time?
I think voluntary birth control is being effectively exercised by citizens of India, so I think population size will stabilize in next 2 decades or so. Till then India should effectively use the demographic advantage to raise the living standards of the people by making them more productivity through industrialization and moving away from agriculture as main source of employment/earning for vast majority of population.3. If there is no birth control, how to deal with exponentially growth of population?
Interesting graph, that. I wonder what makes Goldman Sachs sure of a drastic population growth-rate drop around 2030.India's population will surpass China soon
"1,800 million, that is not a burden but a 1,800 million opportunities" With all respect, I don't think so. India's best policy is to have some sort of birth control for all her citizens. Otherwise India's future could be cursed.why did i suspect the thread had to be started by a chinese, no wonder it is
brazil has a better chance than india
veitnam has a better chance than india
chinese are so predictable.
so what if india crosses that mark?
the same population which was a curse once is a driving force of our economic growth today.
there are serious questions being raised on china ageing before it gets rich, and india's long term growth is based on this very fact, which is, india will keep producing these millions and millions of growth engines, and the process will continue for a very long time period, where the cycle of growth in china will be limited but in case of india the cycle will be much-much longer.
secondly, we dont force people, we educate people and let them make an informed choice, things in india dont flow from the barrel of a gun as happens in china, so what if someone wants to have more than a child or two? if all those kids can be an asset to the economic growth the problems sorts out.
large population means you do not depend on others to pull your economy. there is a massive consumer base to be made use of, just make sure there is a rising middle class.
takes me to 2006, chinese members like rockdog and badguy used to laugh at us on the number of mobile phones in india and that was the time china had touched 500million users, today the situation is where china has 900million and india has 850million and india could well do a billion mark quicker than the chinese.
india by 2050-60 is expected to have a population of 1,800 million, that is not a burden but a 1,800 million opportunities, we in india and unlike china dont consider our people as liablities.
Well, good. But where are the jobs, don't tell me the world will move all of their manufacturing to India, it's a fantasy. How do you feed so many people when world's population is more than 7 billion by then and everyone is competing for limited resources? Not to mention can India's territory afford that many people (pretty big but very over-crowded compare to population)She'll have largest young population in world by then. She will also have more than 25% workforce of the entire world. In the meanwhile, China & Europe will be suffering problems of aged populations. Blunders of harsh birth control will haunt for longer time.
That statement is valid only in case of industrialized nations, not underindustrialized India. Those 1,800 million will become "1,800 million opportunities," only when there are factories that can hire them, a service sector that can make use of them, or when a large number of them have what it takes to start businesses and hire scores of others. Otherwise, overpopulation is always a liability on the nation.india by 2050-60 is expected to have a population of 1,800 million, that is not a burden but a 1,800 million opportunities, we in india and unlike china dont consider our people as liablities.
That's very true. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh's population combination is huge and all of them are growing fastIndia would have had the a larger population then China today if the map was not redrawn by the British.