I will be posting and irritating you follows over here henceforth.

My first post has to do with the expected population of Nigeria in about four decades from now. It is expected the population would jump from 166 million to 402 million.

The question that comes to mind is, why do people in the poorest countries (such as Nigeria) have so many children?

While this may be happening in Nigeria very soon, the country would still remain one of the poorest inhabitant countries in the world with extremely poor infrastructures.

This attitude mirrors the extreme misfortunes of majority of Africans - senseless breeding.

The people who shouldn't have children are, and those who should aren't. How's this picture working out for you?

Would Africans ever grow to the point they realize it's better to work than have children, and that working for living far outweighs the joy of making and rearing endless babies?

The world is not a burden on us, we are a burden on the world.

Control your birth rate, Nigerians, else you would spill the African population to the edge. Your population is already a problem - you are in the news for all the wrong reasons everyday. Learn to adopt rather than make a whole new babies which are needless.

Low life expectancy and high child mortality.

There's something called demographic stages. Every country on earth goes through them.

Underdeveloped, Pre-industrial, industrial, and post industrial.

1. In the underdeveloped stage a country has high birth rates but equally high death rates so the population remains constant.

2. In the post industrial stage (Nigeria) the people in a country gain access to food and technology that enables them to live longer. However, their mentality is the same as in the underdeveloped stage because of general lack of wealth and leisure time (not even education or condoms can solve this) The population skyrockets.
In this stage there are huge numbers of people of reproductive age (under 30) because the life expectany is still low and accidents are very common. This stage is characterized by a very low value for human life.

3. Industrial stage- Countries like china where the life expectancy begins to increase because of technology, but the birthrate drops slowly. This causes the country to have a larger percentage of older people who do not reproduce, and the birth rates decline even further.

4. Post industrial places like japan & skandinavia where life expectancies are extreamly high but the birthrate drops exponentially because of leisure time and money. The amount of older people dwarfs the number of reproductive age ppl and the country can even have negative population growth.

The way you think and act is completely dependant on your demographic stage. For example ppl in stage 2 always drive crazy. Until Nigeria gets out of stage 2 people will still have an underdevolped mentality, and the population will continue to grow.

pleep:

There's something called demographic stages. Every country on earth goes through them.

Underdeveloped, Pre-industrial, industrial, and post industrial.

1. In the underdeveloped stage a country has high birth rates but equally high death rates so the population remains constant.

2. In the post industrial stage (Nigeria) the people in a country gain access to food and technology that enables them to live longer. However, their mentality is the same as in the underdeveloped stage because of general lack of wealth and leisure time (not even education or condoms can solve this) The population skyrockets.
In this stage there are huge numbers of people of reproductive age (under 30) because the life expectany is still low and accidents are very common. This stage is characterized by a very low value for human life.

3. Industrial stage- Countries like china where the life expectancy begins to increase because of technology, but the birthrate drops slowly. This causes the country to have a larger percentage of older people who do not reproduce, and the birth rates decline even further.

4. Post industrial places like japan & skandinavia where life expectancies are extreamly high but the birthrate drops exponentially because of leisure time and money. The amount of older people dwarfs the number of reproductive age ppl and the country can even have negative population growth.

The way you think and act is completely dependant on your demographic stage. For example ppl in stage 2 always drive crazy. Until Nigeria gets out of stage 2 people will still have an underdevolped mentality, and the population will continue to grow.

Dude you know way too much information.

Ap enviornmental science class. I new it would be usefull someday haha.

Ghanaguy,
Strong point but very weak analytical skills,your hatred for Nigeria and Nigerians sold you out and turned your hitherto valid observation into mere rantings from a disgruntled nitwit.
Population explosion is a global phenomenon and i bet the dredges that populate Osu,Oda,takoradi,even the underage urchins that roam about obuasi and some of the slums in ghana don't fare better than our Ajegunle,south africa's soweto,india's mumbai to mention but few.
Going forward son,learn to postulate without selling yourself out.

@All
The solution is a collective one,Our governments must tackle this menace squarely and We too must jettison the ''Africa-Wide'' believe that God has already provided for a child's need before conception.
We all should know that it's not enough to sow seeds of human life in quick repeated sessions of reckless ecstasy,We should all reason beyond the delight of tears,beyond the passionate intensity of fulfillment derived from copulations,We should realize that we owe the kids we churn out a decent life.