Geography & History Notes | KCSE, NECTA, ZIMSEC & GCSE

  The negative implications of an increasing population are: Overutilisation of natural resources. An increasing population leads to overutilisation of resources and their exhaustion due to overstocking, overfishing and over farming by the large population. Widening income disparities. Income inequality increases because only a few people own means of production especially land and capital while the majority have very limited access to resources. Low savings and investment. The level of savings and investment decreases due to the high dependence burden. The large number of dependants on few workers leads to consumption of most of the incomes and low savings. land fragmentation and landlessness. Population increases more than the capacity of the available land to contain it leading to problems of landlessness and land fragmentation. Poor standards of living. The living conditions of the people become poorer because more and more people, especially children, share the limited resourc...