Rapid Population Growth (Romy and Nikki)

Case Study: Rwandan Genocide (See Hotel Rwanda Film)

• Rapid Popultion growth led to:
  • overpopulation
  • caused tension between religious groups (hutus and tutsis)
  • fight over the limited resources began
  • this led to a genocide

Second Case Study: Philippines (http://www.prb.org/)

• (June 2003) Fast-paced population growth and rampant urbanization represent some of the major population concerns in the Philippines, a country of 80 million people where the average number of children born to a woman is close to four and where a sizeable 37 percent of the population is under age 15.