POPULATION THEORIES

In population theories we basically talk about the malthusian population theory which states that whereas population grows at a geometric rate, food production tended to grow at an arithmetic rate. Malthus stated that due to the above trend; population growth after a time would equal food production (population trap) and further outstrip it, and after such a time, there was need to control population growth through preventive (negative) checks like moral restraint, celibacy among others, otherwise positive checks like pestilence, wars, diseases among others would serve to reduce the population.