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Article: Population growth and development prospects for Pakistan.(POPULATION DYNAMICS)(Report)
- Article from:
- Pakistan Development Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Reproduced with permission of the Publications Division, Pakistan Institute of Development Economies, Islamabad, Pakistan. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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According to 1998 U.N. projections, by middle of the next century Pakistan will become the third largest country after India and China. This paper examines the implications of this startling prediction and argues that this high population growth is a serious challenge for the real development of the country. The paper is divided in three sections: (1) To examine and analyse the population growth, (2) implications of this to the economic development, and (3) population policy. The statistics used in the paper are based on the U.N. data and differ from newly released census figures of Pakistan which indicate a smaller population and somewhat slower rate of growth. The main ...