Poverty

==== Preventing overpopulation ====
{{main|Demographic transition|family planning}}
[[File:Total Fertility Rate Map by Country.svg|thumb|270px|Map of countries and territories by [[Total fertility rate|fertility rate]] as of 2020]]
Poverty and lack of access to birth control can lead to population increases that put pressure on local economies and access to resources, amplifying other economic inequality and creating increase poverty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unfpa.org/resources/population-and-poverty|title=Population and poverty|website=www.unfpa.org|language=en|access-date=11 February 2019|archive-date=21 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521093951/https://www.unfpa.org/resources/population-and-poverty|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=birthrates/><ref>"[https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gevGOq7Vctd1FmJkzO3gapTqX4ZA Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523114015/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gevGOq7Vctd1FmJkzO3gapTqX4ZA |date=23 May 2012 }}". [[Agence France-Presse]]. 21 September 2009.</ref> Better [[Female education|education for both men and women]], and more control of their lives, reduces population growth due to [[family planning]].<ref name=empower>World Bank. 2001. ''Engendering Development – Through Gender Equality in Right, Resources and Voice.'' New York: [[Oxford University Press]].</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Crist|first1=Eileen|last2=Ripple|first2=William J.|author-link2=William J. Ripple|last3= Ehrlich|first3=Paul R.|author-link3=Paul R. Ehrlich|last4=Rees|first4=William E. |last5=Wolf|first5=Christopher |date=2022 |title=Scientists' warning on population|url=https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/Crist2022.pdf|journal=[[Science of the Total Environment]]|volume=845 |issue=|page=157166 |doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157166|pmid= 35803428|bibcode=2022ScTEn.845o7166C |s2cid=250387801|quote=Alongside ambitious investment in schooling girls (and more broadly, of course, all children), priority should be given to making high-quality family-planning services available to every woman on the planet, while economic, geographic, and cultural barriers to access should be removed. The combination of institutional support to plan one's child-bearing choices and educational attainment, including enhanced opportunity for higher education for women, yields immediate fertility declines.}}</ref> According to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), those who receive better education can earn money for their lives, thereby strengthening economic security.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Population and Poverty
|url=http://www.unfpa.org/resources/population-and-poverty
|year=2014
|access-date=5 January 2015
|archive-date=21 December 2014
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221013524/http://www.unfpa.org/resources/population-and-poverty
|url-status=live
}}</ref>