Population in the Arab World
During the last hundred years the population of the Arab world was doubled more than ten times. This was mainly due to the improvement of health care, education, employment and immigration to the big cities, and sometimes other countries. This change in the population caused a lot of as the number of people is much more than the resources available for them.
In the past, there was poor medical care, which led to the death of many people, especially children. The family was used to getting the kids 3 or 4 survive. This was a major problem till the second half of the 1900's, when the medical care was improved. The improvement of medical care had a positive and negative effect on the Arab world. The positive effect was that the kids of early ages increased which led to the increase of the working labor. This was useful to increase the income of the family, in addition to better output in a lot of jobs. Convincing the families that most of their kids will live -- unlike the past was difficult, which led to a rapid growth in population that was out of control. That was the main negative effect that resulted due to improving the medical care.
Another factor that controlled the population growth was education. Men and women became more and more educated and started to realize that it wasn't by the quantity, but the quality. They realized that they would rather get less children in order to be able to give them more care. Unfortunately, this exists only in urban society, where both men and women are more likely to be educated. As for the country side, the tradition of getting larger number of kids is still the case.
Another major factor that affected the population is women's work. Nowadays, women are starting to have their own career and they are less likely to have as many kids as they used to in the past. in many cases, the don't even get any children because they have no time. Also, working women spend less time with their husbands and they are both tired after work so population was controlled through this. However this factor started to exist recently.
Around this time, living standard began to rise more dramatically. This meant that fertility increased while mortality decreased, leading to an overall larger families and higher population. Technology also was increasing much faster than before due to the return for human capital increased. Real wages for a longer living population increased, and along with increased technological advancement, meant that families could invest more into their children. More could afford to send their children to school, and thus feeding into the quickened pace of technological advancement. Another aspect is the falling fertility after the initial surge as families see that their children are surviving more, so they do not need to have nine kids and expect only three to survive. Now they can have two kids and both are likely to grow up. This regime was the transition between the Malthusian model where everything is constant, and the Modern regime that we have
After the People’s Republic of China was established several factors such as improved sanitation and medicine led to a rapid population increase. Initially, the population growth was considered to be an economic boom [2] because before it occurred the county had faced a century of wars and epidemics. However, by 1962, China started to promote the use of birth control. Later, in 1979 China was faced with a population that was growing out of control[3], and the government decided that in order to combat the extreme population that they needed to take action. Thus, the Chinese government decided to implement a one child policy.
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For instance, the human population trebled from about 1000-1350 and main reason is due to migrations (Davis, 245). Civilizations such as Vikings, Saracen, and Magyar migrated to Northern Europe and France (Davis, 250). Hence, the area of northern Europe and France was open and deserted and fully of resources such as food, animals and spaces (Davis, 250). Therefore, due to the affluent of quantity resources, this cause an attraction and driven a massive of people and civilizations to migrated in northern Europe and France. As results, there were increases and spread of population rapidly that filled the spaces and by 1300-1350 Europe was closed and the frontier was gone (Davis, 250). Furthermore, the drastic increased of human population in northern Europe and France led into a crisis of an economic and agricultural causing drought and poverty. Reason being there was a limitation and regulation. Limitation at some level of scarcity of one or more resources such as food, transport or space and regulation that brings the population to the limits set by the environment (Davis, 249). The increase of human populations totally occupied the deserted space and demands a higher quantity of food supply, in which creating a limitation and regulation in the population. For example, the pressure for land resulted in restriction of the use of forests, decrease in the size of the farms,
In 2010 the Middle East experienced a disturbing series of protests and riots against the government. The term Arab Spring was coined as an allusion for the 1848 revolutions that rocked the Arab world. This devastating revolution saw its inception in a chain of small scale protests for the democratization of the Arabian governments. With its start in Egypt and Tunisia it has not failed in affecting every Arab country from Libya, Sudan and Morocco in the West to Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the East. A branch of the same revolution has successfully managed to become the cause for a civil war outbreak in Syria and even stretched its influence outside the Arab world to affect Iran and Mali.
The conflicting ideas of whose fault the crisis was or why it came to be can all be traced back to the Arabs opposition to live in a Jewish State or to make peace. Many Arabs inflicted refugeeism on themselves by fleeing. Nearby Arab countries rejected the Arabs, made the crisis worse because the Arabs had no place to go. The few Arabs who were expelled, were in strategically vital areas. CONCLUDING
In, The Population Bomb by, Paul R Ehrlich, he explains the problem of population increase, and how there are people everywhere! The feeling of feeling over populated. He talks about how if there are more people then there is more food that needs to be produced then ate. He explains on the rich people becoming wealthier and the poor are going to be even poorer and there is going to be a starvation. Population is doubling every year and how our energy is turning into
Population increase was due to the life of the farmer and the food producer. When the transition to farming happened, life was more suitable for more children. When people were constantly on the move, having multiple young children was not ideal. Young children had to be carried and dealing with three young children who could not walk would result in a hard mobile life of the mother and possibly the death of the young child. When people began to farm, more villages were built. In the village, people could keep an eye on many young children. Fertility rates increased due to multiple children in a short time frame. Population increased also due to child labor being a necessity and a want. Adding to the population gave way to the children learning the ways of the domestication of plants and animals so that everyone had a job to do in the villages, which allowed the village to thrive. Farming then transitioned into food production that allowed the people to control their crops and produce their own food. The move to the life of the farmer and producer brought advantages however there was an increase in the disadvantages.
In conclusion, the expectations of democracy during the Arab Spring proved to be an unfulfilled scenario which resulted in many Arab citizens living in turmoil and faring desperate times. The Arab Spring was portrayed as a stride for Middle Eastern states to become an equal democratic utopia. However, an unstable economy, foreign intervention by the American government forces and for-profit corporations, and terrorists with extremist agendas were some of the causes of the Arab Spring which led to chaos. Therefore, the transition to democracy failed in many Arab countries during and after the Arab Spring because of political, social, religious, regional, international and corporate factors which are complicated enough to stir up unrest.
The Arab Spring is an extremely prominent issue today. This refers to the series of protests and civil wars that have been occurring in the Arab World due to discontent with government, human rights violations, poverty, and other factors. Countries where this is an issue include Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan. One of the countries hit hardest by the revolution was Egypt.
Is population control the answer? There are two ways to go about answering these questions. Women are brought into the equation for both answers. As previously stated, over population and under population result in negative global economic effects. Population control should in theory attempt to keep the population at stable rates to ensure decreasing poverty rates as well as a blossoming global trade market. Where do women come into play now? In underdeveloped nations, the social standings of women are low within the community. Women are expected to perform certain duties of which, working for wages or partaking in higher education, are typically not concerned. Sernau demonstrates examples throughout the text, “The balance between work and family, and all the unpaid work that may come with providing for the needs of children and other family members, challenges people around the world, and is a key factor in gender inequality” (Sernau 14). This quote mainly focuses on gender inequality and not
... Arab states that faced massive protests: high unemployment among the young, corruption and political repression.
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An increase in human population can influence our economy. Some of the factors that are affected are unemployment, poverty and the restriction of economic expansion. When the population increases, the cost of health, education, and other areas of urban growth are affected. Unempl...