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THE BURGEONING POPULATION GROWTH IS POSING
NUMEROUS ACHING MATTERS
The rapid population growth is exacerbating the hard-solving problems for
human beings, including ecological and environmental destruction, natural
resources exhaustion, food scarcity, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and
spreading dangerous infectious diseases.
Population now is the matter of great concern in many countries as it directly
affects their socio-economic development. In the current context, with the aim
of sustainable economic development, countries should attach special
importance to the population issues, especially human resource training and
development.
According to the World Bank (WB), Asia Pacific currently accounts for more
than half of the population, but only occupies a quarter of the Gross National
Product (GDP) of the whole world. In addition, the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) has shown that the number of people living below the poverty line now
is 49% of South Asia’s population and 30% of the world population.
In recent years, the urbanization process in Asia has been proceeding 2 to 5
times as fast as that in Europe, causing the rural-to-urban migration stream,
which leads to the dramatic increase in the population in many big Asian cities.
Recently, the population has reached 13 million in Calcutta (India), 12 million
in Seoul (Korea) and Jakata (Indonesia),…
Overpopulation in many Asian cities causes environmental issues to become
pressing and thrilling as ever. In Bangkok (Thailand), the air pollution has
increased the number of victims contracting respiratory diseases.


The exploding population also leads to the remarkable decrease in natural
resources, especially forest areas. Recently, the destroyed and burnt forest areas
in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Myanmar, exceeding 3000 square
kilometers, have directly affected their inhabitants’ health, depleting the ozone

layer, causing many spells of droughts, floods, hailstorms, and storms, along
with threatening the existence of many animal species.

Booming population is also responsible for the increasing illiteracy rate and the
unguaranteed healthcare services. Today, there are still up to 600 million
illiterate women in the world, of which the female illiteracy rate in Asia is quite
high (50-75%).

The most important way for women to escape from the vicious circle of an
inferior social status, poverty, and large family is education, which the United
Nations has prioritized in Family Planning.

After the Program of Action of International Conference on Population and
Development was passed, people really paid attention to the population
advocacy.

These activities, through a wide range of population and

development initiatives, aimed at mobilizing necessary assistance and resources
to stabilize population growth rate.


Hence, the government of Vietnam is striving to integrate population problems,
sustainable development and reproductive health into the activities of many
agencies such as Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the National
Assembly’ s Committee for Social Affairs, the National Committee for
Population and Family Planning, mass organizations, and mass media agencies.

The population advocacy will raise further awareness and understanding of the
interrelation between population and development. It will also bring about the

leaders' support and commitments on the necessary initiatives to grant everyone
a stable life.

The planet's fortune requires each nation and the global community to make a
stark choice.