The Problem of Overpopulation

If we go back to the past history of mankind we come to know that there was only scattered population in the world but with passage of time, the world was inhabited by more and more people though life ratio was too less. With the discoveries in medical science, it added fuel to the fire and growth became too fast.This world of ours is now in the strong grip of the ever-increasing of over-population. To control the rampant growth rate, the developed countries have made and are still making their efforts to control it and they have to great extent succeeded in bringing the increasing population under their control; but only their efforts are not enough for the whole world. In the developing countries it is increasing at an alarming rate. the multiplying population eats up whatever progress is made every year in the backward countries. The big cause of overgrowing population is the wide difference between the death rate and birth rate besides a desire to get a male child in the families,illiteracy, polygamy,and not abiding the rules of family planning are the causes of over growing population is becoming more and more serious especially in the developing countries. According to statistical data, the world population is now estimated at 7.2 billion. It is not needless to say that we are really undermining the very life support systems that sustain us. A day will come when there will be no space to even stand on earth which a finite planet, with limited resources.  But with current industrial technologies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has estimated that the more than nine billion people expected by 2050 as the population nears its peak could be supported as long as necessary investments in infrastructure and conducive trade, anti-poverty and food security policies are in place. Who knows what will be possible with the technologies of the future? The important message from these rough numbers should be clear to all the people that this earth would never support us.