French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms

Evidence

It was not so much the fault of the French — “because they simply weren’t there” — but the sheer harsh facts of population pressure. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In 1995, two rays of hope appeared. Oil exploration in Algeria made the world’s biggest oil discoveries for the past year. But would these now be put to the salvation of the country’s desperate economic problems, and to countering the demands of overpopulation — that fertile field on which Fundamentalism breeds so readily — or would they be, once again, profligately wasted, as under Boumedienne? — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1696 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade.; Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled; Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346 (+1 more)

Related

• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery (similarity 0.90)
• Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.80)
• A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade. (similarity 0.79)
• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.78)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346
• Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1696