Overpopulation is not the reason of poverty in southern Africa

With this enormasly long hedline I herby open my blog LimitedByReality. Don't mind the name of the blog, it was just somthing I came up with, and alldough I have plans to discuss this team later. What I realy want to do with this blog is to attack statements that I think are falce, becouce they do not see the whole picture and/or are misinterpreting it.

To get stright to my point. Many people belive that overpopulation is the reason for a countries poverty. I'll compare 2 country. One of them is 825,418 km2 large (about twice as large as the state of Calefornia), the other being 41,526 km2. The largest country has a population of about 2.1 million, the one with only 41.5K km2 a population of 16.5 million. Which country would you expect to be the richest/poorest? Which country would have the largest unemployment-rate?

The country that is 41.5K km2 large and populated with 16million people is The Netherlands. The other country is Namibia in south Africa. While Namibia has a GDP of $13.653 billion ($6,611 per capita) Netherlands has a GDP of $876.970 billion, or $52,499 per capita, being about 8 times as many people. While unemployment in Namibia is 30-40% the Netherlands has kept it stable under 4%, event trough the financial crises.

This points, that third world countries problems are not overpopulation but rather other factors such as mismanagement and corruption is mentioned by overpopulation.com ("Indonesia’s problem — like much of the poor in the Third World — is endemic mismanagement and corruption, not its increase in population and/or wealth.")

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