Comparatively, China and In­dia have reduced their annual pop­ulation growth rates to 0.18% and 0.70%, while Pakistan’s hovers around 2% (1.91% precisely). Uneven population growth is ex­acerbated by distributing financial resources among provinces based on population through the Nation­al Finance Commission (NFC). Pakistan lacks a Malthusian fig­ure to portray the horrific impacts of high population growth, and there’s no leader initiating a dras­tic policy like China’s one-child policy (1979 to 2015). Poverty, unemployment, terror­ism, crime, deforestation, pollu­tion, political polarisation, and the energy crisis are directly linked to uneven population growth. Existing policies and structures are against curbing high popula­tion growth.

Source: The Nation November 26, 2023 22:15 UTC