{"id":33880,"date":"2022-07-12T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/experts-weigh-in-on-increasing-local-global-population"},"modified":"2022-07-12T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:17:00","slug":"experts-weigh-in-on-increasing-local-global-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/experts-weigh-in-on-increasing-local-global-population","title":{"rendered":"Experts weigh in on increasing local, global population"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The government should prepare to spend more on infrastructure and social service delivery, and bolster sustainable production of food to stand the pressure associated with the fast population increase, Ugandan experts have said.<\/p>\n

However, they also said the population growth means there will be more market for goods and services, and the possibility of cheap labour for employers.<\/p>\n

The experts were commenting on a projection by the United Nations that the global and Ugandan populations will hit 8 billion and 48 million this year, respectively.<\/p>\n

Dr Madina Guloba, a senior research fellow at Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), in an interview with Daily Monitor, while questioning the accuracy of the projection, said there will be more negative effects of population growth, especially in the short run.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith any population increase, comes pressure on social services in terms of delivery.<\/p>\n

That pressure will come on the government to take care of this population. The major issue is how we are prepared for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dr Dan Kajungu, the executive director of the Makerere University Centre for Health and Population Research (MUCHAP), said the government is not prepared to handle the fast increase in population.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rate at which the population is growing in Uganda is higher than the improvement in social services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Dr Guloba, any viable population that is not productive becomes a burden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe burden will be on the few who are working and it can have an impact on the meagre resources, especially on the household level. That means the dependency ratio is going to increase and this has an impact on poverty rates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to the World Bank update for 2022, poverty in Uganda increased from \u201c27.5 to 32.7 percent after the first lockdown in 2020\u201d due to reduced remittances, limited credit, and job losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond this pressure on social services, there is also multi-dimensional poverty \u2013that means stress on water, forests and education system. What I look at in the growing population is that multi-dimensionality might increase in terms of access to critical resources,\u201d Dr Guloba said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is also the risk of increased crime rates because we don\u2019t have viable ways for engaging the segment of the population. The young population is increasing and that means there is a risk of the vicious circle of teenage pregnancies,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Hunger crisis<\/b><\/p>\n

Dr Kajungu on the other hand said the increase in population and reducing soil fertility will increase hunger, forcing more people into urban areas. He said this will have far-reaching consequences on the health and productivity of the population.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople, majorly those in urban areas are shifting away from [health] foods that they used to eat and they are now eating things such as fried chips, drinking soda and alcohol and that puts them at risk of developing non-communicable diseases [such as hypertension and cancer],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there is pressure on the land which grows these foods. The harvest is low and so people have to travel to buy foods in urban areas that may not be healthy compared to what they used to grow and eat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The decline in soil fertility and erratic climate that is resulting from degradation of the environment, partly as a result of increasing population is already causing a shortage of food in Uganda with cases of deaths in Karamoja and Lango sub-regions as a result of chronic hunger.<\/p>\n

Dr Guloba said cheap labour will not be realised in the short run.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the short run, we are going to see the increase in dependency ratio and the \u201ccheap\u201d labour will be realised later on. But this labour is not even cheap,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith time, as this generation grows and they are too many, there will be few jobs and so people will be working few hours so that more people are engaged. This will cause a redistribution of time [which indirectly affects the earnings of an individual]. You will be highly skilled, but there will be no job to keep you constantly engaged,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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