Essay Outline on Population Explosion in Pakistan
Essay Outline
- Definition
- Population in the world
- Conditions in Pakistan
- Population Table
- Problems
- Better medical facility
- Lack of education
- Lack of planning of the government as per the resources
- Desire for a male child
- Early marriages
- Abundant food resources
- Effects
- Effect on economic growth
- Problems in urban cities like Karachi
- Effect on agriculture
- Urbanisation
- Social evils
- Solution
- Role of media
- Role of religious scholar
- Education for all
- Resources as well as population
- Chinese model
- Conclusion
Essay on Population Explosion in Pakistan
(Essay Introduction)
Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. The term often refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment, the Earth. Steve Jones, head of the biology department at University College London, has said, “Humans are 10,000 times more common than we should be, according to the rules of the animal kingdom, and we have agriculture to thank for that. Without fanning, the world population would probably have reached half a million by now.” The world’s population has significantly increased in the last 50 years, mainly due to medical advancements and substantial increases in agricultural productivity.
The recent rapid increase in human population over the past two centuries has raised concerns that humans are beginning to overpopulate the Earth, and that the planet may not be able to sustain present or larger numbers of inhabitants. The population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1400; at the beginning of the 19th century, it had reached roughly 1,000,000,000 (1 billion). Increases in medical technology have led to rapid population growth on a worldwide level. Current projections show a steady decline in the population growth rate, with the population expected to reach between 8 and 10.5 billion between the year 2040 and 2050.
The scientific consensus is that the current population expansion and accompanying increase m usage of resources is linked to threats to the ecosystem. The Inter Academy Panel Statement on Population Growth, which was ratified by 58 member national academies m 1994, called the growth in human numbers “unprecedented”, and stated that many environmental problems, such as rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, global warming, and pollution, were aggravated by the population expansion. At the time, the world population stood at 5.5 billion, and low-bound scenarios predicted a peak of 7.8 billion by 2050, a number that current estimates show will be reached around 2022. But in 2011, world population reached 7 billion.
Population explosion is a global problem. It is equally true of Pakistan. Everyday we come across the oft-repeated phrase, Population Bomb is ticking”. A state based on Islamic ideology should be an ideal state. Since its inception, Pakistan had to face the problems of illiteracy, poverty, pollution, unemployment, lawlessness & terrorism, inflation, loans, corruption, defective tax structure, government instability and many more chronic problems. Unless we achieve a control on population, these related problems will not be easily solved.
At the time of partition, the area, which today comprises Pakistan, had a population of 33 million. The following table shows population of Pakistan at different times since its inception.
| Year | Population (In millions) |
| 1947 | 33 |
| 1972 | 66 |
| 1998 | 130.5 |
| 2000 | 140 |
| 2010 | 170 |
| 2016 | 190 |
According to experts, under the same growth rate, the population of Pakistan would be greater than that of China by the year 2035.