Question

Do you think it’s possible for all countries to be developed? Explain your answer

Answer 1

Yes. It is easy to develop with a low birth rate. Almost every country in the whole world considered to be "modern" has a low birth rate below replacement level and almost every country considered to be undeveloped has a high birth rate above replacement. Obviously, growing, feeding and educating a population of less people and slower growth is necessarily easier than with a lot of people and fast development.

If any country wishes to grow or end poverty, all they need to do is focus on maintaining a very low birth rate for a few decades or so. Poverty will end in virtually every country with a low birth for a couple of decades or so.

It looks like the birth rate is declining worldwide and ultimately almost every country in the world needs to have little or no hunger (as in little to no hungry people). If we discovered an efficient birth rate reduction plan or process we could very easily end poverty worldwide.

I think promoting social isolation is a good strategy for lowering birth rates and a good way to do so seems to be to promote the use of the internet and social media. It seems like when you have people watching movies, playing video games, and using social media a lot it causes the birth rate to drop significantly due to social alienation caused. Since the year 2010 the US has seen a dramatic decline in the birth rate and Facebook has become famous as in 2007. But the negative side of a very low birth rate is that it is also causing a population to die out. Many European and Eastern Asian countries are now dealing with problems of population decline as their birth rates are so low if their birth rates do not rise significantly sometime in the future they will simply go extinct.

Another negative aspect of low birth rates is that often low birth levels are triggered by social isolation and antisocial behaviour which some view as negative.