Rapid population growth smashing hip pockets, straining vital services
The objective of growth should be to improve people’s lives, not worsen them, but population policy is not meeting this basic metric.
Urban sprawl and urban densification driven by rapid population growth is straining infrastructure in suburbs around Australia. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
“Rapid population growth – at rates above 2 percent, common in most developing countries today – acts as a brake on development. Up to a point, population growth can be accommodated… but the goal of development extends beyond accommodation of an even larger population; it is to improve people’s lives. Rapid population growth in developing countries has resulted in less progress than might have been – lost opportunities for raising living standard…
