The relationship between population growth and economic growth is of great interest both for demographers and for development economists. Thomas Robert Malthus, the English political economist who first raised concerns about world population two centuries ago, claimed that population growth has a negative effect on well-being. His theory was simple: given that there is a fixed quantity of land, population growth will eventually reduce the amount of resources that each individual can consume, because the increase of population will take place in a geometric progression, while food supply will increase arithmetically. At the time, he was misunderstood and heavily criticised by critics. What Malthus got wrong was his failure to anticipate the technological revolution technologies to use the land, water and other limited resources more efficiently that would raise agricultural productivity to meet the need of the increased population. However, today many believe that Malthus will be pr
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