While the world has problems with immigration, healthcare, drugs, gun control, taxes, and so on, we forget to think about the fact that Our world is facing an issue as impractical as population growth. The idea that having a child could create problems for a country is strange, but this is the case for many countries, including the United States of America. “The United States is the third most populous country in the world and has the highest population growth rate of all developed countries,” (Chamie 1) to further analyze this issue and put it into perspective of the global issue that it actually is, comparing the United States From the states current problem with population growth to the problem of population growth in China. Since the founding of the United States in 1776, immigration has driven more than half of America's population growth. Without immigration, the current U.S. population of 316 million would be approximately 143 million (Does 1). As far as China's history with population growth, up until the 1960s they actually encouraged their people to have many children because it was believed that power would come with large numbers. China's population will increase from 540 million to 940 million in 1970, then they began to encourage the population to have only two children, but soon they began to create a policy to ensure that the population growth rate is lowered (Wang 1), which it was a completely opposite policy to that adopted by the United States. US policies regarding population growth are not that strict. Politically, the United States is believed to be pro-birthrate, meaning that its ongoing national policies encourage people to have more children. Chief among these policies is an income tax structure that offers… middle of the paper… overpopulation. Two countries like China and the United States may have completely different policies on this issue but nevertheless both are looking at serious complications due to this. China has a much bigger problem than the United States, but it is clear that if no changes are made the roles could be reversed, which unfortunately would not be good for either of them. So, despite the different culture, government, location or history, we see that both faced the same problem of overpopulation. They must work to find good policy that strikes a balance between not violating citizens' moral rights and being realistic about what a country can and cannot allow. This is a problem that everyone is aware of, even if they do not address it correctly: "Our objective must be to bring our territory into harmony with the number of our population." - Adolf Hitler.