Overpopulation in India

India is the second most populated country on this planet and is on it's way to being the first one in the next years. The government is very worried about the size of India's population and has focused a lot into combating India's growth. The government thinks that combating the overpopulation they will combat the high poverty rate (35%).

As India is an agriculturist country, most of the people living in the rural part and they are farmers. These farmers have little or no education at all. They live in large families and have like 4 or 5 children. They think they have to have a son because a family with no sons has no heir.

In contrast there are the cities where most of the people are educated enough to decide how many children they should have. However, thousands of people migrate daily from villages to cities in search of work making these cities overpopulated.

‘We are underdeveloped because of overpopulation’ is a common saying in India. At first I thought the same but then I search about countries overpopulated and if they are developed and I found the example of The Netherlands. It isn’t a so overpopulated country like when we talk about India but it is also. Often poverty is reasoned with overpopulation. That is not true. Poverty or starvation is caused by continuous wars, poor organization, and incompetent and corrupt governments and not by too many people.