Population Differences: Canada, Cameroon, And Pakistan

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Each country’s population trends are unique, they represent the country’s stories of struggle, hardship, and even success. When one compares the given five countries (Canada, Peru, Poland, Cameroon, and Pakistan), one is able to see the individual challenges each country faces.

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There differences between the five countries given are vast and numerous. Canada seems to be commonly viewed as a highly developed country compared to the others. We are now focusing in augmenting our work force and dealing with social issues rather than facing issues such as working on our stage of development, such as Cameroon. Canada, as well as Poland and Peru, have a fairly low dependency load compared to Cameroon and Pakistan. Where Cameroon is

Then again, this could also mean a higher demand for children’s and seniors’ products, which could actually boost that section of the economy. Population growth, again, is another concern. While Canada and Peru are relatively stable, Poland is in the negatives and Cameroon and Pakistan have growth rates almost at 2%. For Poland, this brings their economy into question. Will, 50 years down the road, the future decrease in population be able to support the economy? If not, they’ll have to forge a plan to keep the country strong. An incentive to increase the population may be put in place or immigrants may be brought into the country to boost the work force. However, moving on to other countries, an enormous growth rate is very different from a shrinking one. Cameroon and Pakistan are facing a massive population increase within the upcoming years. With Cameroon hitting 23M and Pakistan growing to 250M by 2025, scarcity and resources are two very important issues in question. Say that these two countries fail to provide for their citizens, food and

As talked about before, these two nations are facing a terrifyingly large population increase within the next 10 years, with growth rates reaching almost 2%. Also discussed in the past paragraph, there are many concerns that can be brought up about the problems this increase in population will bring. Scarcity of resources being the biggest concern, I believe Esther Boserup, a famous Polish economist, best exemplifies this issue. Her view on the matter is the complete opposite of Malthus’ theory. Boserup believed that, no matter the population increase, humans, being the innovative beings that they are, will find, if not invent, a new way of obtaining sufficient resources. Drawing on her knowledge of farming in the developing world, where populations were growing quickly, Boserup argued that the threat of starvation and the challenge of feeding more mouths motivates people to improve their farming methods and invent new technologies in order to produce more food. Boserup described this change as ‘agricultural intensification’. For example, a farmer who has four fields to produce food for his family might grow crops in three of the fields, but leave the fourth field empty as the ground is dry and his crop will not grow there. However if the farmer has