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Overpopulation

Bennet Pajor, Caroline Künzelmann, Elia Orawetz

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Consequences

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Solutions

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Definition

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Facts

The term overpopulation describes the situation where the number of people on Earth is getting more and more. This means that people are consuming more of the earth's natural resources than could be reproduced in the same time.

Definition:

Facts

  • October 2021 around 7.9 billion people
  • Born Babies:
    • Every second: 2.6 people.
    • Every minute: 157
    • Every Day: 225,690
    • Every Year: 82,377,000
  • Worldwide, each woman has about 2.4 children on average.
    • In Africa, the birth rate is 4.6 children per woman
    • In Germany, the birth rate is 1.57 children per woman

Consequences

for the environment:
- Deforestation
- Air pollution
- Decline in biodiversity
- Global warming
- Plastic waste in the environment

for the population:
- Drinking water shortage
- Faster spread of diseases
- World hunger
- Increasing consumption
- migration
- emergence of slums

Solutions


- better tax and social measures
- birth control behaviour
- wars, poverty, disease and climate change
- more education and awareness-raising
- education enables women to gain more employment