i'm neutral on this...but it should be noted that there are economic challenges associated both with aging populations (usually a reflection of low fertility rates) and rapid population growth...and reasonable policy responses to both...countries like France and Japan have implemented policies to encourage people to have more children...and other countries have worked on making contraceptives more widely available and to educate people about family planning...I think most countries are still fairly laissez faire about this issue
it is interesting that China has moved away from its one-child policy...economic growth solves a lot of problems...but there is little doubt that at certain stages of development excessively fast population growth is a big problem and still is in places like Egypt