The Effects of Overpopulation in the Philippines

The Philippines needs to deal with a major problem that poses a threat to frugal harvesting. Overpopulation is the root of almost all problems in the Philippines and for the country to progress, it altogether needs to solve overpopulation and everything else will follow. The problem of overpopulation is one of the components that causes unemployment. Existing businesses in the country can no longer provide jobs to all the workforce in the country.Jobs are on tap(predicate), however delinquent to lack of educational expertise, which can similarly be traced from overpopulation, non many people are qualified to handle the available jobs. Even the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, which is currently booming in the country, cannot provide jobs to all Filipino citizens because not all Filipinos are salubrious-versed in English. Overpopulation will not summation the assemblage of taxes if the country could not conduct jobs to its population (cited in Orbeta, Pernia an d Sanchez, 1999).The National Statistics Office (NSO) indicates that population would be projected at 90. 4 one thousand million in 2008 with a population harvest-tide rate of 2. 3 portion annually, one of the highest in Asia. due(p) to the high unemployment rate, many of the workforce are not qualified as taxpayers which means that budget collection is low. This is considering the number of projects needed to stabilize poverty and other related problems. In short, overpopulation creates unemployment unemployment creates poverty and poverty impedes economic growth.If overpopulation could only be solved, the government could allot more of the budget needed for growth and development quite a than shelling out huge funds for housing projects, feeding programs and other projects aimed at alleviating poverty. Overpopulation also results in abuse of the countrys natural resources. This, in turn leads to different environmental problems. Pollution is also a factor associated with over population. Waste disposal in the Philippines is a worsening problem which threatens the environment.The Environment and Natural Resource chronicle Project (ENRAP) indicated that households were found to be the major contri onlyors to var. and water pollution in the Philippines. (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Indab, 1999) For air pollution in 1992, 64 percent of particular matter, 89 percent of volatile carbon and 90 percent of carbon monoxides come from households while 44 percent of biological oxygen demand, 61 percent of suspended solids and 76 percent of Phosphate contribute to water pollution (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Indab, 1999).Population growth also affect education and health in such ways that there are decision birth-spacing, lower trains of nutrition intake, poor nutritional status, higher infant mortality, smaller per capita health and food expenditures, poorer overture to preventive and curative medical care, lower schooling expenditures per child, lower grades f or children enrolled in school, lower child intelligence. It was also pointed out that this setup is more evident in families that are below the poverty line (cited in Orbeta, Pernia, Jha and Deolalikar, 1999). The relatively high fertility rate also indicated that it affects education.It was discovered that enrollment rate continued to increase despite rapid population growth and that per capita expenditure showed a decline even if enrollment rates were not affected by population growth (cited in Orbeta, Pernia and Schultz, 1998). These results were then compared using data from the Philippines and air results yield that while human capital expenditures rise, the increase does not suffice enough to sustain the level of per capita expenditure which gravely affects the quality of education (cited in Orbeta and Pernia 1999).On the other hand, overpopulation in the country tacit has a positive outcome. The dollar remittances coming from Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), the Philippine Peso still trades well versus the US Dollar. One way to solve the problem, the legislative branch of the government must enact a bill that will limit the number of children that a couple may have. China is already doing this but the one-child policy that they are implementing was deemed too harsh. Having a limit of two children would be just enough to curb the countrys present population.It may even be noted that those people who do no have a good standard of living are the ones that have less children while the wanton families have only one to three number of children. Another way of solving overpopulation is by property family planning campaigns and disseminating proper information on contraceptives. However, being a Catholic country, the church service stand rest to be an impediment. Due to this, the promotion of such initiative remains to be debated by the Government and the Church for a long time.Addressing the challenges caused by overpopulation remains to be difficult fo r the Philippine government to address due to the complications and relative problems it gives to individuals and society. The Philippine government must act accordingly to these problems and promote mechanisms to tackle the issue accordingly. In the end, if people and the government will work hand-in-hand to combat the adverse effects of overpopulation, to foster continued growth and development.