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With a such rapid demographic growth they have no choice. The population of Egypt doubled in last ~35 years. (quadrupled in the last ~60 years)

• nradov 2mo ago
  That's true for now, although their rate of population growth appears to have peaked several years ago and like most other countries the birth rate has since declined sharply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt
  • betaby 2mo ago
    People born yesterday are alive today and will be alive in the next ~70 years mostly.
    • cute_boi 2mo ago
      Given this unsustainable population growth, I wonder how serious the refugee issue will become for Europe and the Americas over the next 30 to 40 years.
• sajithdilshan 2mo ago
  How is that even sustainable, like housing, education, electricity, running water, etc. how can they scale those with that fast growing population
  • lazide 2mo ago
    Grow more crops, build more dams, etc? Until they are out of room anyway, but they have a lot of unused desert right now.
  • BurningFrog 2mo ago
    Typically, people produce about as much as they consume, so a growing population normally sustains itself.