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In 1915 Saudi-Arabia had population of some 1,9 million and now with some 33 million and rising. Due to economy based almost solely on oil this is clearly unsustainable.

Now, what if Saudi leadership, say, in 1960's, decided to promote family planning, perhaps with vast subsidies available due to oil income? Leading to population of perhaps, say, 10 million in 2017? Of course this policy would have risks, as smaller population would be better educated and thus less easy to reign upon.

As Saudi-Arabia is wahhabist crazycracy this might be of course ASB, but how about some arab socialist country, perhaps Egypt as prime candidate? What might Egypt with population of, say, 40-50 million people look like?
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