Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Taberannang Korauaba
New Zealand needs to plan quickly for the future before overpopulation problems in neighbouring countries get out of hand, says a leading Pacific demographer.
The Pro-Vice Chancellor Research of AUT University, Professor Richard Bedford, said the problems stemming from overpopulation were becoming serious in Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.
“In Kiribati, of the 100,000 population, 50 percent live in urban Tarawa while in Solomon Islands of its 500, 000 population, 20 percent live in urban areas,’ Dr Bedford said.
He described what would happen, what their children would do, and how life would look like in these two island nations in 50 years.
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Taberannang Korauaba is a Masters in Communication Studies student at AUT University and the publisher of the Kiribati Independent.
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