Should a country's government regulate its population growth?

Population growth in a country can be controlled in three
main ways. These are controlling the birth rate, death rate and migration rate. Through
years, authorities have been regulating the size of their respective population. It has
been owing to appropriate measures to control numbers of people living in their
countries that, third world countries have been able to progress socially, and
economically, to become developed.

First and foremost,
population growth is controlled to combat social ills. It is very difficult for
authorities from an overpopulated country to have the upper-hand on people. Too many
citizens in a state brings about problems like crimes, delinquency, violence, ethnic
tensions and epidemics

Secondly, population growth is
increased or decreased because of the economic position of the particular country. A too
large populace brings about many economic difficulties like unemployment, a high
consumption rate, a negative balance of payments, big budget deficits and high debts of
countries. Therefore through family planning accompanied by contraceptive measures,
concerned people try to reduce the increase in the expansion rate of the
people

Lastly, encouragement towards limitation of growing
population results in many health and social problems. For example, contraceptive
measures are encouraged by authorities, but this result in more social intercourse which
in turn result in more sexually transmitted diseases. Also, scientifically it has been
proven that some contraceptives when taken in excess affect lives or simply health of
individuals especially women