Overpopulation

What is Overpopulation
▪ Population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a
population . Overpopulation is the condition of being populated with
excessively large numbers. It is having too many people for the amount of
food, materials, and space available in a certain country or city etc.
Overpopulation occurs when a species population exceeds the carrying
capacity of its ecological niche it can result from an increase births,
immigration, and depletion of resources.
Condition
▪ In 2018, the Philippines had a population of 106, 651, 922 people, which
represents an increase of 1, 731, 922 people compared to 2017. With its
1.72 percent average population growth rate, the Philippine population is
projected to reach 142 million in 2045. With about 21.6 percent of the
Philippine population living below the national poverty line based on a
2015 survey, life for the poorest of the poor, especially for those living in
big cities, could only get worse.
▪ Overpopulation exacerbates many social and environmental factors, including
overcrowded living conditions, pollution, malnutrition and inadequate or
nonexistent health care, which wreak havoc on the poor and increase their
likelihood of being exposed to infectious diseases.
▪ This type of living condition is common along shorelines, rivers, creeks, and
water tributaries in highly urbanized areas, like Metro Manila and Metro Cebu,
for instance, where informal settler communities (squatter colonies) thrive.
▪ Almost all kinds of waste, including human feces, are also being thrown into the
rivers, creeks and other water tributaries from the homes of these communities
because many of them do not have toilets.
▪ The irresponsible and unsanitary habits of some, if not many, residents in
squatter colonies increase the health risks posed by polluted shorelines, rivers
and creeks, not only to its residents but to other communities, as well, where
health conscious Filipinos who pay taxes to fund the government’s 4P’s and
Universal health care program.
▪ The Philippines is second only to Mexico as an exporter of labor. An
estimated 10 percent of the country’s population, or nearly 8 million people are
overseas Filipino workers distributed in 182 countries. That is in addition to
the estimated 3 million migrants who work illegally abroad.
Government Agencies concerned with Overpopulation
▪ PopCom (Commission on Population and Development)
▪ NPPFP
POPCOM (Population Commission)
▪ The Commission on Population (POPCOM) mandated as the over-all coordinating,
monitoring and policy making body of the population program. It is the lead agency
promoting population activities.

Responsible Parenthood – Family Planning (RP - FP)

The Responsible Parenthood – Family Planning (RF-FP) Program component deals with
issues related to sexual and reproductive health, including fertility and family planning
concerns. It primarily aims to help couples to realized their desired timing, spacing, and
number of children in accordance with their socioeconomic, emotional and psychological
capacity.
Adolescent Health and Youth Development Program (AHYD)
To contribute to the improvement and promotion of the total well-being of
young Filipinos ages 10-14; 15-19; and 20-24 through their sexual
reproductive health. Specifically it aims to contribute to the reduction of the
incidence of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
and HIV/AIDS among young people.
National Program on Population and Family Planning (NPPFP)
Is a major component of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive
Health Law(RPRH), aims to reduce unplanned and unwanted pregnancies by
enabling couples and individual to attain their desire number of children within
the context of responsible parenthood. The implementation of this program
aims to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) to 65 percent,
and lower fertility rate to the replacement rate of 2.1 average number of
children per woman by 2022.
Statistics related to Overpopulation

Figure 1
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 Dasmarinas
441,876

Caloocan City Quezon City

1,500,000 2,761,720
Pasay Antipolo
416,522 549,543

Makati City
Taguig
510,383
644, 473

Iloilo
387,681 Cebu City
798,634

Mansilingan Cagayan de Oro

454,150 Budta 445,103
1,273,715
Davao
Zamboanga 1, 212, 504
457,623

Malingao
1,121,974 General Santos
679,588
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Comparison with other Countries
The Philippines ranked 13 in the Top 20 largest countries by population
with the population of 110,021,984 compared to China who ranked first with
the population of 1,440,981,394.
The Philippines is also among the world’s fastest urbanizing countries.
With 47 percent of the population living in urban areas, the country has more
than 200 urban areas that have population of more than 50,000, compared with
31 percent in Thailand and 16 percent in Cambodia.
 The rate of natural increase- the birth rate minus the death rate- is 2.2
percent, compared with 0.8 percent in Thailand and Singapore and 1.9 percent
in Malaysia.
As of 2013, the Philippines has the highest unemployment rate in the
region at 7.1 percent, followed by Indonesia with 6.3 percent. Cambodia
and Thailand post the lowest percentages at 0.3 percent and 0.7 percent,
respectively.
Problems and Issues
Overpopulation is the root of almost problems in the Philippines.
Unemployment, existing business in the country can no longer provide jobs to
all the workforce in the country. Jobs are available, however due to lack of
educational expertise, which can also be trace from overpopulation, not many
people are qualified to handle the available jobs. Even the Business Process
Outsourcing(BPO) industry, which is currently booming in the country, cannot
provide jobs to all Filipino citizens because not all Filipinos are well-versed in
English.
 Due to high unemployment rate, many of the workforce are not qualified as
taxpayers which means that budget collection is low. Unemployment creates poverty
and poverty impedes economic growth.
We overlook the thousands of people we encounter along the streets everyday,
these thousands of people are those who clog the lines to different modes of public
transportation, litters the streets and corners of the city and congest the halls of malls
and office buildings.
Overpopulation also results in abuse of the country’s natural resources. This, in
turn leads to different environmental problems.
 Pollution is also a factor associated with overpopulation. Waste disposal in the
Philippines is a worsening problem which threatens the environment. The
Environment and Natural Resources Accounting(ENRAP) indicated that households
were found to be the major contributors to air and water pollution in the Philippines.
Population growth also affect education and health in such ways that there are
close-birth spacing, lower levels of nutrition intake, poor nutritional status, higher
infant mortality, smaller per capita health and food expenditures, poorer access to
preventive and curative medical care, lower schooling expenditures per child, lower
grades for children enrolled in school, lower child intelligence.