Measuring The Long-Term Relationship Between Population Growth and Economic Growth Under Sustainable Development

Abstract

Developing countries have abundant population that can be employed in the production process in order to support production plans and economic activities, and then finance sustainable development plans. The hypothesis of the research is that the population increase in Iraq reaped the negative impact and lost the positive impact in order to build the economy and support sustainable development. The importance of the research is to study the long-term relationship between population growth and economic growth in order to attract the attention of decision-makers, to care for the workforce and develop public health and education at its various levels. Econometrics method was used in order to prove the validity of the relationship in the long term between the research variables for the period (2004-2018). The research concluded that there is a long-term and influential relationship between population growth and economic growth. The research recommended attention to primary education and establishing an appropriate environment for training and rehabilitating the currency hand to benefit from it in building the economy.