Malthus Theory of Population
British economist Thomas Malthus presented the 'Population Theory 'through his book "An Essay on the Principle of Population" in 17980. Malthus theory establishes a relationship between the food growth rate of a country and the rate of population growth. According to Malthus, the population growth rate of a country increases at a geometric rate or a geometric progression,i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.,
While the rate of food growth increases at an arithmetic rate or an arithmetic rate.Progression i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. As a result, after a certain time, the population becomes excessive and food grains become less than that i.e. the problem of over population arises.
According to Malthus, there are two ways to solve the problem of overpopulation - first (natural) or natural measures and second, (artificial measures) adopts; Where under artificial measures, late marriages, observance of celibacy etc. are included, which are adopted by humans.According to Malthus, the natural measures of population control are very painful and if man wants to avoid these sufferings, then he should adopt artificial measures of population control himself.population growth food supplied to population.time (annual) It is noteworthy that Malthus' s theory does not appear to have been implemented in any country of the world, because the main reason for this is the new research and technological progress in the agricultural sector, which has kept the food growth rate dominating over the population growth rate. But the relevance of Malthus' theory is that it warns that overpopulation is dangerous.
