Managing rapid population growth

Social

• limited access to healthcare and education
• children miss out on education to work to support families
• not enough housing
• health problems - housing not connected to sewers or clean water
• food shortages

Economic

• not enough jobs - unemployment increases
• increased poverty

Political

• government focuses on policies for certain groups of people e.g. young people - education, childcare
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• government has to make policies to control population growth
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examples of population policies to achieve sustainable development:

Birth control programmes

• reduce birth rate
• some governments control how many children couples have
• Governments help couples to plan how many children families have

helps towards sustainable development because population wont get much bigger.

Immigration laws

• control immigration
• government can limit number of immigrants

helps towards sustainable development because it slows down population growth