The population growth today has a huge difference when we compare to the population hundreds of years ago. The population of this world is grows rapidly and is reaching another billion in just twelve years from 2000-2011. Sadly, the length of years in which the population increases another billion becomes short. This sounds alarming to me because we will be so overpopulated in which the limited resources we have becomes much scarce that will bring our mother earth into destruction because of the the continuous exploitation of people to what the earth possesses.
The growing population has an effect both positive and negative in particular to the human lives, to the economy of the country and to the global economy. Growing population can lead to overpopulation, however it can help to mobilize enough people to defend the integrity of a country. This is so possible to a country like us, Philippines, through the benefits that a countrymen will get by their services. It can also increase the market labor force. We can produce greater number of goods and services since we have this greater people that needs it. In contrast, overpopulation can lead to poverty of a country and the level of unemployment may arise. And this overpopulation can cause the government to shift expenditures from infrastructure to education and health care.
The 2017 population of our country, Philippines, is estimated at 104.9 million. We are a small country yet we are so large in numbers occupying this land that's why for me, we have a problem in poverty, unemployment and there's a lack of support from the government even though they provide the needs of the citizens. But because we are overpopulated, and there's a corrupt politicians, the money in which it should be given to Filipinos became so limited and most of the times it is being funded to personal pocket use that's why we have a delayed and overpriced infrastructure projects. These are for me the causes of poverty in our country and also we, the Filipinos are even a problem because some are too lazy to find jobs prioritizing vices, having the crab mentalities, and only depending on the benefits that will only receive from the government.
In 2017 Philippines was called as Asia's rising tiger by the world bank, the advantage of overpopulated is that, we have a lot of workers locally and overseas that is number one contributors to our economy. And I just noticed that because of the influence of social media, there's a boom in opening of large number of business establishments and destinations. This sounds good for me because we, Filipinos, are pushing ourselves to go upward, we start businesses of our own and hopefully someday, true blooded Filipino are the most riches in our own country.
