Critical Problem that compounds the economic, Social and Political Consequences

1. The growth rate: The growth rate of the region over the last fifty years has been depressed and benefit of growth whittled away by rise in population in SAARC country.
2. Over population: South Asia is mostly densely populated area. At the estimated 1.8 percent annual average rate of population growth . The region of over 1 billion people will account for almost a quarter of the world’s population
3. Disbursement of population: The patterns of population dispersed has created two basic issues over congestation in crisis, urban areas, fertile plains and valleys and special access of remote outlaying mountains, valley and atolls. Later it makes difficult to implement cost effective poverty alleviation program
4. Extensive erosion of the natural resources: The region has witnessed the excessive erosion of natural resources over the last fifty years and directly linked to pressure to ecosystem
5. Growing foreign debt burden: region growing foreign debt burden together with fresh borrowing, leads to great dependency .