Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria

Evidence

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: Horne states the overpopulation-Fundamentalism link as asserted cause; worth checking how demographic studies of Algeria’s 1990s support or complicate it.
• XREF: connects to: Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled; French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms; Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 43 (+1 more)

Related

• French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms (similarity 0.90)
• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346