Open AccessThe Relationship Between Population Growth and the Expansion of Education Systems in Developing Countries 1950-1970
Author(s) -
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v17i2pp.212-232
Subject(s) - developing country , population growth , population , developed country , development economics , economic growth , qualitative research , economics , political science , sociology , social science , demography
In the past two decades or so an education revolution hasoccurred in developing countries. Most people want education for theirchildren and governments have responded to the rapidly growing demand byincreasing the supply of educational services at a rate withoutprecedent in human history. But, questions have recently been raisedabout qualitative aspects of the expansion in school enrolments indeveloping countries. A number of studies have illustrated the potentialawesome effects of population growth on education budgets in developingcountries[4, 5, 8,12,13,15 and 21 pp.497-498]. The obvious questionarises as to whether the negative qualitative implications of suchpopulation growth on education systems in developing countries arealready apparent. The present paper evaluates available evidence on theextent to which quantitative and qualitative indicators of educationtrends have been related to population trends in developing countriesover the period 1950-1970.