Population Control Measures

What is the best way to control the population?

The best way to control the population is family planning, educating the people about sex, using oral pills, using safety barriers, one-child legislation, etc.

What are the effects of overpopulation?

The effects of overpopulation are scarcity of food, housing, water, transportation, etc. Overpopulation is the main reason for deforestation and environmental pollution.

How does population control reduce poverty?

Various population control methods like family planning, result in a reduction of population growth. The reduction in population growth results in reducing poverty, ensuring equal service to all the people, affordable health benefits and sustainability on earth.

Is there any population control law in India?

Uttar Pradesh and Assam have proposed to introduce legislation that will compel couples to restrict the number of children they produce to two. These states intend to bar those with more than two children from contesting local body elections, applying for government jobs and accessing various subsidies.

Why do we need Population Control?

We need population control because, in case of overpopulation, the resources of a country might be over exploited. Overpopulation is the cause of many environmental problems as well. With effective and accessible population control methods, human beings will prosper.

Population Control refers to the method/ practice used to control and maintain the type, location, and quantity of people on the globe. The term ‘Population’ means the group of all the living organisms of a particular species, in a certain geographical area, at a specific time, who can interbreed, and the various ways by which their numbers and kind are controlled are called population control measures.

Population is the biggest resource for a country; However unchecked population growth is disadvantageous and this is why various types of population control measures have been adopted by governments across the globe.

This article aims to discuss in detail the various measures of population control that have generally been adopted worldwide across nations and also provide notes on this topic, covered under Chapter 2 of the NCERT Class 12 Geography textbook.