How does war and conflict affect the population of a country?

Different types of conflict exist, however one kind of conflict impacts the world the most; war. A population of a country can be controlled by war. During the war, there’s a high death rate and low birth rate which decreases the population drastically, however post war there will be low death rate and high birth rate which increases the population.

The trigger of a war plays a key role such as the treatment of races changes and can cause friction between two different races or within the same race, dividing the race clearly in different perspectives and the clash of their perspectives triggers another war and so on, causing rapid changes to the population.

There may not be any major war in progress right now but we are still impacted by wars that happened years ago. Because of a war the upsurge of death rates and post-war birth rates sky-rocket or as we know as “baby boom”.

Because of the sudden rise of population there was an unbalanced collapse in economy, which resulted in high demand of food, water, shelter causing the environment to decline causing poverty. Increase of population means there will be more competition for education, which impacts the economy which leads to poverty. Also food, water, land space demands increase resulting in shortage of food and water in some countries and shortage of land space in others. Factories are created to combat with the high demand of supply leads to high demand of space needed to create factories, fumes secreted by factories which impact the environment.

This is important to be aware of because as time goes on there will be less daily necessities and the need to gain daily necessities can cause conflict between countries and lead of another outbreak of death and birth which affect the...

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...out the people who live in the country. For example, there is Hong Kong. There are still impacts of the war in Hong Kong. From monuments, public holidays dedicated to honouring the death of relatives and independence, jobs that were popularized due to war; prostitution, factory jobs, nursing jobs ect., as Holland stated in “A property slump that will affect the whole of Hong Kong’s economy – South China Morning Post” possible property slumps that will affect the economy, which results in inequality and poverty. And as previously mentioned, poverty affects the population of the country due to the quality of life, and the quality of life may affect suicide rates resulting in the effects on population.

Conflict also affect population because of the amount of money spent on wars are money that could be used to create new facilities for the current population,