With a dropping per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), struggling to contain the coronavirus, and a vast proportion of the population living under $1 a day, it may be time for India to institute policies to control its out-of-control population growth.
India has done exceptionally well in information Technology and has consequently made tremendous progress in growing its economy in this information age.
But an explosion in population especially among the poor may be dragging down India, which seems bent on catching China to become the world’s most populous nation.
The reality though, is that the new residents need a place to live. India in worst in the world by far among notable nations when it comes to available space per human.
While the average number of residents per square kilometer of the world is 16, India is racing past all other nations with 423 residents per square kilometer.
Nigeria is at 228 residents per square kilometer and China, which has had a long standing policy on controlling births per family, at 151 residents per square kilometer.
At some point the United Nations may need to set policy recommendations for nations that surpass an established benchmark. The UN could set that number at, say, 140 residents per square kilometer at which point a country must automatically start to institute population control mechanisms.
DNT News
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