The association between poverty and rapid population growth in developing countries is examined. Analysis of current demographic data revealed a shift in the association between low income and high fertility and mortality rates. It is noted that the effects of rapid population growth upon the poor operate at the national level by influencing factor and product prices and the per capita availability of investment resources. Theories of the relation between family size and family members' health and educational and income status are reviewed. Population policy is assessed emphasizing the importance of the delivery of family planning services to the poor. Illustrative projections of population growth into the 21st century are based on a set of assumptions regarding the future course of growth and poverty alleviation and the future family planning policies of developing countries.
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L. et al. (1980) studied this question.